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Iraq. The great palace at Khorasbad of Sargon II, ruler of Assyria 2,600 years ago, has kept diggers of the University of Chicago last week by Leader Gordon Loud, was to excavate a 420 x 250 ft. temple, connected to the palace by a graceful stone viaduct and dedicated to Nabu, god of scribes and historians. Nabu's staue was gone from the central shrine where once it stood. But on the stonework bordering the steps was a prayer addressed to Nabu by King Sargon. There were carvings in wood and ivory, some of Egyptian inspiration, others bearing...
...uncovered four more. The twelve skeletons are apparently of a hitherto unknown species. In an exultant but anxious message to the Museum last week Dr. Brown reported the welter of bones so tangled that none could be moved until charts and photographs have been made and the entire 25 x 60 ft. site excavated...
...cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen and cut-out a more penetrating photographic exposure was given to the thick part of her body than to its less dense extremities...
When Arthur W. Fuchs, Eastman's x-ray expert, took the picture, the girl was wearing a white cotton dress. Visible were her jewelry: a necklace and pendant of gold and jade, a white-gold wrist watch, a silver bracelet, two rings, an earring...
When Mr. Fuchs developed the x-ray film he discovered that his model held her bobbed hair in place with metal hairpins, her stockings with metal clasps. Her skeleton is boyish-broad shoulders, narrow hips, big lungs and heart. Her only trouble, and that not yet serious, appears to be a sagging colon...