Volume 4 / Number 4
1962
On The Cover: Part of Meroitic inscription on a tombstone in the cemetery at Toshka West excavated by the Yale University-University Museum Expedition to Nubia.
Vol. 4 / No. 4
Expedition News – Summer 1962
The Libyan Expedition For the past two years the Museum has continued its researches in Libya at the large ancient city of […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 4
By: David Crownover
Take the Chair
Only in recent times has the chair become a household necessity. From antiquity the chair was reserved for persons of […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 4
By: William Kelly Simpson
Nubia: 1962 Excavations at Toshka and Arminna
The excavations of the Peabody Museum of Yale University and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania entered their […]
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By: Maurits N. van Loon
A Lion Bowl From Hasanlu
From June to September, 1960, Robert H. Dyson, Jr. led the fifth campaign of excavations at Hasanlu, south of Lake […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 4
By: Ruben E. Reina
The Ritual of the Skull in Peten, Guatemala
The history of the Department of Peten in Guatemala has unique features when compared to the rest of Mesoamerica. These […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 4
By: Margaret Lavin
The Pharaoh’s Last Death
(The Egyptian Government plans to inundate Abu Simbel, in Nubia, for irrigation purposes, and the ancient monuments of the kings […]
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Vol. 4 / No. 4
By: Rodney S. Young
Gordion: Phrygian Construction and Architecture II
An earlier essay in Expedition (Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1960) attempted to answer the favorite question of visitors to almost […]
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