Volume 3 / Number 3
1961
On The Cover: An Egyptian figure from one of the columns of the Palace of Merenptah at Memphis faces a late Pre-Conquest Mexican warrior. Together they symbolize the arcaheological work in the Old and the New World for which the Museum is famous.
Vol. 3 / No. 3
By: Margaret L. Arnott
Easter Eggs and Easter Bread of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Among folklorists it is a well known fact that one does not look in the center to find traditions but […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 3
Expedition News – Spring 1961
Tikal, Guatemala The Expedition at Tikal which has been at work since the end of January will close its 1961 […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 3
By: G. Roger Edwards
An Ivory Gorgoneion
Of all the sculptural work of Greek antiquity, that in ivory is among the least well known to us from […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 3
By: Marija Gimbutas
“Timber-graves” in Southern Russia: The Second in a Series on Expeditions Around the World.
As a result of the intrusion of the Kimmerians and Scythians from southern Russia in the late eighth and seventh […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 3
By: Robbins Burling
Boys of the Yellow Robe
Last spring I spent a few weeks in Hopong, a market town in the Shan States of Burma. The town […]
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Vol. 3 / No. 3
By: Robert H. Dyson, Jr.
An Iranian Gold Piece
Herodotus tells us that when the Persian fleet was wrecked off Magnesia in Thessaly in 492 B.C. on its way […]
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