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Europe for the first time entering the arena of oriental history, and 

 reveal to lis the migrations which carried the Etruscans from Asia 

 Minor to Italy. The expedition doing the work on these records is 

 the largest which the institute has in the field and is conducted by 

 Dr. Harold H. Nelson as field director. 



EGYPTIAN PALACE ARCHITECTURE RECOVERED FOR THE FHJST TIME 



At this place the same expedition is conducting extensive excava- 

 tions in order to recover the architecture of the buildings. This 

 proiect has been under the immediate leadership of Prof. Uvo 

 Hoelscher For the first time we have now before us m surprising 

 completeness the architecture of a Pharaoh's royal palace To our 

 surprise, Hoelscher's excavations and penetrating observations have 

 disclosed quite clearly that the largest halls of a Pharaoh s palace 

 had vaulted ceilings, and were not therefore flat-roofed like the 

 Egyptian temples, as we had formerly supposed. This unexpected 

 discovery is of great importance in the history of architecture. 

 These palace halls, with high vault over the central axis and lower 

 vault on either side, are undoubtedly part of the ancestry of the 

 clerestory architecture of Europe, with high nave and lower side 

 aisles. 



NEW ORIENTAL INSTITUTE HEADQUARTERS AT LUXOR 



This work of salvaging the evidence from the temples and tombs 

 of the Nile has developed so rapidly in the plans of the institute 

 that it was decided to establish permanent headquarters with ap- 

 propriate buildings on the east side of the Nile at Luxor. Ihe 

 institute therefore purchased a tract of Si/o acres facmg the Nile 

 on the northern fringes of the modern town of Luxor and almost 

 under the shadow of the great Karnak temple. This expedition 

 of the institute with its personnel of over a score, who have been 

 living beside the great Medinet Habu temples on the west side 

 of the Nile, has now moved into the buildings of the new head- 

 quarters on the east side. Here is a large residential house, with 

 spacious social rooms; the whole connected by an arcade with a 

 neighboring building, containing library, offices, a large draft- 

 ing room, and plentiful workrooms. Besides these two, there is 

 another building containing photographic laboratories, a garage for 

 the cars of the expedition, an outlying building for laundry, be- 

 sides work shops and servants' quarters. These buildings are of 

 burned brick, steel, and concrete. Designed in the southern Cali- 

 fornia-Spanish mission style, they stretch along the river with a 

 frontage of over 350 feet, and will form the outstanding scientific 

 center "for the operations of the institute in the Near East, as well 

 as the Egyptian headquarters. 

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