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...Peru, on the windswept Paracas peninsula, Dr. William M. McGovern, of London University, and Dr. Julio Tello, Harvard-educated Peruvian archeologist, gathered scattered bones, bits of pottery and building stone; dug six yards down and found the red porphyry walls and courtyards of a city of unknown extent dating to 1000 B. C. Burial caverns, scooped into solid rock like the interior of flat-bottomed water-bottles with yard wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco...
...Tello '11, G. K. Noble '17, and Dr. L. S. Moss will leave New York for Paita, Peru, in about ten days on a South American expedition for the University Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Paita they will travel on mules across the Andes, and into the Amazon valley. The purpose of the expedition is to collect zoological specimens and to study the native tribe of Guarani Indians. Dr. Tello, who holds the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, will make anthropological investigations and study the language of the Indians, while Dr. Moss will study diseases and their...
Each member of the party has been to South America at different times before on expeditions of a similar nature, and has had wide experience. Dr. Moss has made several trips to South America and Dr. Tello was a member of a Harvard Medical School expedition. This will be Mr. Noble's second trip to South America for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, his first one having been in 1914. He has also been on expeditions to the coast of Labrador and other points for the University, and they have all resulted in notable achievements...
Beginning on the left of the door, the objects are arranged in chronological order, except where their size or the date of their arrival has prevented. Among the finest specimens in the collection are the colored casts of monuments from the Babylonian ruin of Tello and from the ruins of the Persian Susa. There are also casts of Hittite bas-reliefs and inscriptions. In the high cases in the room are casts of Assyrian monuments of the ninth and seventh century B. C. A case to the left of the door contains the original Babylonian clay tablets, while...
...Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest recovered specimens are from about 4000 B. C., and come from Tello in Southern Babylonia. The essential feature of the script, after the period of picture writing was past, is the wedge. These in combination make all the signs, several hundred in number. The script read at first downwards, but afterwards to the right. The wedges have but three directions, horizontal, perpendicular, or oblique...