The Diggers

(In its last two issues, TIME reported leading archeological and paleontological events in the Western Hemisphere and in northern Africa in recent months. Herewith the European and Asian fields are covered, the African completed.)

At Giza, Egypt, Dr. George A. Reisner's Harvard-Boston expedition (TIME, March 23, 1925) effected entrance to a burial chamber near the Pyramid of Cheops; deduced from the disposition of furniture and the human remains that it was the reburial place of Cheops' father or mother. Out of a pious desire to have his parent...

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