Near East Section

Vol. XIV / No. 4

By: Clarence S. Fisher

Bethshean: Excavations of the University Museum Expedition, 1921-1923

Those who had an interest in history or archaeology realized to some extent its great strategic value in the constant […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 3

By: Leon Legrain

Darius and the Pseudo Smerdis: A Green Jade Relief. CBS. 14543

WHILE Cambyses led the Persian Army in Egypt, he was frightened by an obscure oracle at Buto, and sent back […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 2

By: Leon Legrain

Some Seals of the Babylonian Collections

The seals and seal impressions are the real jewels of the Babylonian Collections of the Museum. Up to the present […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 1

The Mesopotamian Expedition: Ur of the Chaldees

The Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the University Museum has been at work since November 1 at Ur […]

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Vol. XIV / No. 1

The Palestine Expedition: An Historical Inscription

Egypt between the years 1375 and 1315 B. c. passed through two revolutionary movements, a sweeping reformation and a sharp […]

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Vol. XIII / No. 1

By: Clarence S. Fisher

Beth-Shean

THE Beth-shean of Scripture, called Scythopolis by the Greeks and now the little village of Beisan, has been an object […]

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Vol. XIII / No. 1

By: George Byron Gordon

Arabic Art: This is not a treatise on Arabic Art but a notice directing attention to some examples in the University Museum that I obtained at Cairo and Damascus in 1919.

The terms Mohammedan Art, Arabic Art and Saracenic Art are used by different writers to describe the work of artists […]

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Vol. IV / No. 2

By: James A. Montgomery

Abraham as the Inventor of an Improved Plow

In the Museum Journal, vol. I, p. 4, Prof. A.T. Clay published a reproduction and description of a most interesting […]

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