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Professor G. A. Reisner '89, recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on Egyptian archaeology, will address a gathering in the Main Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock to night. His subject will be the high lights of last summer's Harvard expedition for purposes of excavation in the neighborhood of the great pyramids. He will be introduced by E. A. Hooton, Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Has Led Expeditions
Professor Reisner has led a long and varied life of studies and investigations, having to do especially with Egyptology and related subjects. After studying courses in the Semetic languages in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he became Hearst lecturer in Egyptology and director of the Hearst Egyptian expedition from the University of California from 1899 to 1905; professor of Egyptology since 1914, he has also directed the Egyptian expedition of Harvard and Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1905, he was director of the Harvard Palestinian Expedition, conducting excavations at Samaria, 1907-10. Besides being archaeologist in charge of excavations of the Egyptian government in Nubia in preparation to flooding lower Nubia by raising the Assuan dam from 1907 to 1909, Professor Reisner has written several volumes about his work.
Finds Sarcophagus
His latest expedition, completed last summer, was another fact-finding tour of Egyptian parts. One of his interesting discoveries was that of the empty sarcophagus that once contained the mummified body of Queen Hetep-Heres I, mother of Cheops. Another was a "haunted" fort, which no one dared investigate, because the natives feared being punished by the "shiekh" for a crime committed generations before.
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