Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exhibition consists of photographs of Italian Renaissance sculpture taken by Professor Kennedy in 1925-26 in connection with his study of Desiderio da Settignano, and of classical sculptures, some photographed several years earlier. Among the Italian sculptures are details of the Tomb of Carlo Marsuppini and the Tomb as a whole, also several Portrait busts. Among the photographs of Classical sculpture are ones of the Erectheum made for the book on this temple soon to be published by the American School at Athens, and many examples of Archaic sculpture including the Charioteer at Delphi...
...tomb of Queen Hetephenes, the mother of Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid, has just been opened by Professor G.A. Reisner '89. Professor of Egyptology at the University, who has spent several years making excavations in the vicinity of the Giza pyramids...
...identity of the tomb was ascertained from gold hieroglyphics engraved on the back of a carrying chair...
Queen Hetephenes, according to the inscriptions, was originally buried at Dashriv, a short distance south of the Great Pyramids. But owing to a robbery in this tomb the body was transferred to a safer position at the entrance of the pyramid of Giza. The sarcophagal chamber is located at the foot of a vertical shaft cut down 100 feet through the limestone...
...also announced by the Museum authorities that Dr. G. A. Reisner '89 is still in Egypt excavating the tomb of Queen Betepet-Heres, probably the mother of King Cheops, which was discovered last year by the Harvard University Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. This discovery, said J. F. Coolidge '15, president of the Museum, will undoubtedly prove to be one of the most important archaeological finds yet made in Egypt. The tomb dates from about the year 3000 B. C., and is situated at a depth of nearly 100 feet within the precincts of the Great Pyramid. The royal burial...