Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomb recently discovered at the Giza pyramids by the Harvard-Boston Expedition is to be closed up and sealed until the return of Dr. George A. Reisner '89, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the expedition, it was announced yesterday...
...what, or what shall not be used to beautify feminine cheeks, is assuredly the height of Babbittism. The news has just arrived from the Harvard-Boston expedition to Egypt that the princess, who was first thought to be wife of Sneferuw, used green cosmetic. If the walls of the tomb had also contained a solemn royal edict to the effect that no such decoration was to be used by the women of the Nile valley, the explorers would doubtless have enjoyed a hearty laugh at its absurdity. Yet it is just such an edict which the New Hampshire House passed...
Colonel Thompson himself was in Egypt at the time that the tomb of TutankhAmen was opened and secured a promise from the Egyptian Government that he should have some wheat if any were found. But not a grain has been discovered. He obtained, however, 200 or 300 grains of pedigreed wheat from other tombs, averaging 3,000 years in age. A little of this was planted to make certainty of its infertility doubly sure. Under the most favorable conditions, it failed to sprout. Some of the wheat was ground to flour, however, and chemical tests made. Faint reactions were obtained...
Passed a bill appropriating $10,000 for the care of the tomb of Zachary Taylor in Kentucky. (Went to the President...
...week was to be spent mainly in securing recruits to the Bolshevik ranks. Lenin's jet-black tomb in Red Square, Moscow, was to be visited by all true Bolshies, and everywhere was to be proclaimed the principles for which the dead Red leader lived and died...