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...Lythgoe, Instructor in Egyptology, will give a lecture upon "The Excavation of Town-site of the 18th Dynasty, at Der el-Ballas" this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. This will be the first of three lectures which Mr. Lythgoe will deliver upon the general subject, "The Excavations carried on by the Hearst Egyptian Expedition, 1899-1905." The other two lectures will be upon "The Cemeteries of Girga" on March 31, and "The Mastaba-tombs of the Pyramid-field of Gizeh," on April 7. All the lectures will be illustrated by stereopticon views showing the work...
...Sandys's lectures, a change has been necessary in the dates of Mr. A. M. Lythgoe's three lectures on the work of the Hearst Egyptian Expedition. The dates and subjects of these lectures, as now arranged, are as follows: "The Excavation of a Town Site of the Eighteenth Dynasty at Der-El-Ballas," Tuesday, March 28; "The Cemeteries of Girga," Friday, March 31; "The Mastaba-Tombs of the Pyramid-Field of Gizeh," Friday, April...
...Lythgoe, instructor in Egyptology, will deliver a series of three illustrated lectures on the work of the Hearst Egyptian Expedition. The subjects and dates of the lectures will be as follows: "The Mastaba-Tombs of the Pyramid-Field of Gizeh," Friday, March 24; "The Excavation of a Town Site of the Eighteenth Dynasty at Der-El-Ballas," Tuesday, March 28; "The Cemeteries of Girga," Friday, March...
...floor. One, the copy of the Haramesh-Sherif at Jerusalem, which is the result of actual measurements and careful observation, represents the present condition of the plateau where once stood the ancient Temple of Solomon, and also shows the Mosque of Omar, which, it is believed, occupies the site of Solomon's altar of burnt offerings. Another model is a representation of the Temple of Herod which was destroyed in the year 70 A. D. Although this is an elaborate work, it is, however, largely imaginative, and is no more accurate than the numerous other attempts at the restoration...
...then in a state of transition, and wholly insufficient for the needs of the king and his ever-growing court. He pointed out that the palace of Versailles, as it exists at the present day, is the outcome of successive transformations and additions, the first royal residence on the site having been the hunting-lodge erected by Louis XIII. This was added to by his son, who used it for a similar purpose, and who had the architect, Le Vau, add largely to the accommodations and change it into a residence worthy of the sovereign of a rich and powerful...