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FOR a month - from October 14 until November 14 -the British School of Archaeology at Athens is marking the completion of its fiftieth year of existence by holding an exhibition illustrating its activities and achievement at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London, W.I, which is also made the occasion of an appeal for funds to maintain the efficiency of the School. For the archaeologist who lightly passes from one millennium to another in his exploration of the ages before our era, fifty years is but a brief span. Nevertheless, the fifty years of “the British School”, as it is affectionately known to its intimates, relatively few though they may be, are not far from covering the whole period which has seen the development of archaeological excavation on ancient sites as a scientific method of reconstructing the cultural history of the great civilizations of the past, of which, for the most part, all other record, if such there were, has vanished.
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The British School of Archæology at Athens. Nature 138, 659–660 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138659a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138659a0