This publication opens up in a special way a long buried fragment of human history. In the first place, written as it is for comparative study in archeological work, it presents in great detail the work of the expedition of our Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exact site of this particular exploration, its methods and findings are presented with so much care, yet so simply, that even the general student finds himself initiated into the technique and the fascination of this underground work.

More than this, however, is the intensively vital human interest which accrues about such a study. Such seems to have been the spirit of the explorers, as of these authors who present this report. They are moved not only to an attempt at interpretation of the data discovered but an appreciation of these as representative of a life that strove and