Newsletter, 27 June 1951
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1951-06-27
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American Research Center in Egypt
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Our Membership Secretary, Richard A. Parker, Professor of Egyptology at Brown University, has sent the following delightful account of his recent visit to Egypt- The fruits of his researches will no doubt be more savory to us than the accomplishment was to him: those of us who cannot visit Egypt in the near future will find some consolation in this evidence that a visit is not all roses.
’’Shortly after the close of the first semester at Brown University I left for Egypt for a stay of nearly three months. I had not been in Egypt since I turned over the directorship of the University of Chicago expedition at Chicago House, Luxor, to George Hughes very early in 19U9; and I was anxious to see what two years’ work had brought to light from Egypt’s buried past. I had the primary purpose, however, of rechecking some of ny previous copies of astronomical ceilings and of recording a few new ones as well as a few which time had not permitted me to record before. During xny stay at home, I and my colleague Otto Neugebauer had worked over much of the material which we had previously collected toward the goal of a publication of all Egyptian astronomical texts; and various questions about correct readings had come up which could of course be answered only in the field.