ANCIENT EGYPT
AR.CILFOLOGTCAL INSTITUTE.
REPORTED ROCKEFELLER. GIFT.
Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright
CAIRO, February 14. What is believed to bo a record donation, for humanistic science rescaeh has been offered bv Fir John Rockefeller, jur., to King Fuad and the people of Egypt. The offer is one of 10,000,000 dollars for maintaining the Cairo Museum, which is probably the finest in the world, and establishing an archeological’ institute in connection with the museum.
Professor J. H. Breasted, the distinguished American Orientalist, who formally presented the offer to King Fuar, declared in an interview that the donor seeks by the gift to express the friendship of America, the newest land in the West, for Egypt, the oldest land in the East.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
PREMATURE ANNOUNCEMENT,
NEGOTIATIONS ONLY
NEW YORK, February, 15. (Received February 16, at 1.3 a.m.)
Mr John Rockefeller, juu. denies that he has made any 10,000,000 dollar gift to King Fuad, and the Egyptian people for the establishment of a great museum archajlical institution, as attributed to him in Cairo dispatches. Ho said that for some time negotiations had been under way for such a project, but a decision had not boon readied yet.—Reuter.
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Evening Star, Issue 19175, 16 February 1926, Page 5
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