CONANT PLANS EXCAVATIONS

K. J. Conant '15, associate professor or Architecture, leaves America today for an extended tour of Europe, during which he will engage in excavations, research in Paris, and expeditions to various church ruins of Jugo-Slavia. The bulk of the expedition, which will keep him abroad until September, will be spent in further work on the excavations of the Monastery of Cluny in Burgundy, France, which he has been directing for seven years under the auspices of the Medieval Academy of America.

After a few weeks of preliminary study in Paris, Professor Conant will proceed to Jugo-Slavia to study the Byzantine churches of the 13th and 14th centuries, peculiar to the Balkan peninsula, under the guidance of the Jugo-Slavian government. From here he will go to Athens to take part in the excavation of the Parthenon, and will then return to the Abbey of Cluny. On returning from Europe he hopes to publish a survey of the architecture of the Balkan churches, which have received little attention from archeologists.