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Excerpt from Ur Excavations, Vol. 2: The Royal Cemetery, A Report on the Predynastic and Sargonid Graves Excavated Between 1926 and 1931, TextThe objects found in the course of the excavations have been divided between Baghdad, London, and Philadelphia. In accordance with the Antiquities Law of Iraq the Government of the country has the right of first choice, and actually rather more than half the entire collection is now in the Baghdad Museum...

Excerpt from Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages From an Antiquary's NotebookDid you have to go through a special training for it These are the more serious questions generally put to one, while with the gentler sex it is rather.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stat...

Excerpt from Guide to the Archaeological Museum of the American University of BeirutBeirut, Cyprus, Egypt and Greece. Large numbers 0. Ob jects have been bought locally, from time to time, sometimes singly, sometimes in groups, which possess greater interest m that they are of Phoenician provenance: the most im portant ofthese are the large group of vases from the Bika' (case 1 8 a group (not all of the same date) from Muhin, a tomb - group fr...

Excerpt from Carchemish, Vol. 2: Report on the Excavations at Jerablus on Behalf of the British Museum, The Town DefencesThen came the interruption of the war, when the knowledge of the East possessed by all these gentlemen was placed at the service of the Intelligence Branches of the British forces Operating in Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, so that they became known in wider fields than those of archaeology as lieut.-commander D....

Excerpt from Carchemish, Vol. 2: Report on the Excavations at Jerablus on Behalf of the British Museum, The Town DefencesThen came the interruption of the war, when the knowledge of the East possessed by all these gentlemen was placed at the service of the Intelligence Branches of the British forces Operating in Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, so that they became known in wider fields than those of archaeology as lieut.-commander D....

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Now in present day Iraq, Ur was a city that rose from the "Mounds of Pitch" half way between Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, ten miles west of the Euphrates. Sir Leonard Woolley documents his experience as leader of the great expedition that carried on without interruption until 1934. Before its closure, this significant archaeological dig on the part of both museums established an image of Ur throughout its four thousand years in existence. Ind...

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Excerpt from Karan¿g, Vol. 3: The Romano-Nubian CemeteryThese volumes are the third and fourth of a series that will record the results of explorations in Egypt planned and financed by Mr. Eckley B. Coxe, Junior, of Philadelphia. By an agreement made with the University of Pennsylvania in January, 1907, the expeditions are to be conducted on behalf of the University, and the antiquities obtained will be presented to the University Museum, the ...

Excerpt from Dead Towns and Living Men: Being Pages From an Antiquary's Notebook Did you have to go through a special training for it These are the more serious questions generally put to one, while with the gentler sex it is rather. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books u...

Excerpt from Guide to the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut The nucleus of the Museum was formed by the gift, in 1868, by General P. A. Cesnola, of a typical series of pottery from his excavations in the island of Cyprus. In 1907 the Merrill collection, consisting for the most part of Palestinian pottery bought by Mr. Merrill when American Consul in Jerusalem, was secured by purchase, and in 1905 there was added the c...

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Excerpt from Ur Excavations, Vol. 2: The Royal Cemetery, A Report on the Predynastic and Sargonid Graves Excavated Between 1926 and 1931, TextThe objects found in the course of the excavations have been divided between Baghdad, London, and Philadelphia. In accordance with the Antiquities Law of Iraq the Government of the country has the right of first choice, and actually rather more than half the entire collection is now in the Baghdad Museum...

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