The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
Todays Science
: BY DAVID DIETZ

THE story of mans rise from savagery to civil
Il ization-his early groupings to make tools from
stone, his eventual conquest of the metals his de-
velopment of literature and art, and finally his
creation of ethics and religon-is told in an eight
reel talking movie just finished by the Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago Its title is
"The Human Adventure"
Based upon the fourteen expeditions which the
institute has sent to the fertile crescent"-Egypt
Palestine Syria, Anatolia, Assyria, Babylonia and
Persia-the movie is also summary of the work
of this great organization and its word-famous di
rector, d.. James Henry Breasted
The movie three years in the making. Charles
Breasted executive secretary of the institute and son
of DR.. Breasted, directed the picture and supplied
the voice of the narrator. He made two airplane
expeditions in the field and take the necessary scenes
for the movie.
DR.. Breasted is convinced that the fertile cres-
cent il which the Institutes expeditions have been
working was the birthplace of civilization.
HERE for example is a scene of chickens pecking
l. l. away in what once the great hall of Xerxes
Here is paving slab marked with the seal of Sar-
gon the Second. But when the soft slab was set
out in the sun to dry, mongrel dog wandered
across it, And find the imprint of the mon
grel beside the royal seal.
The stables where Solomon, who added the breed
ing of fine horses to his other activities kept his
blooded horses is shown in the movie So is the
remnant of Stone Age house built 5000 years ago.
Here is 1100-ton granite obelSE which was aban-
doned because of flaw Slaves had cut it out of
only to see their work go to waste
An ironic commentary upon the fate of mans !
works at the hands of time is to be found the fact
that many of the gories of the past have been pre-
served by their own wreckage. Thus, for example
the ashes and crumbng walls of the Persian palace
at PerSopolis which Alexander the Great ruthlessly
burned saved the magnifcently sculptured double
staircase of the palace
ME movie tells in some detail the work of eight
Il OF the Institutes fourteen expeditions After
some Introductory scenes which present the scien-
tifc view of mans evolution, the movie shows the
work OF the prehiSory survey which has been study
ing the relics of the Stone Age hunters remote an
ceStors OF the pyramid builders who forced into
the Nile region by the climatic changes which turned
nearly third of Africa into the great Sahara desert
Next is shown the work at the site of ancient
Memphis where an expedition has been working
in the old Egyptian cemetery known the Sahara.
Here Memphis buried its dead in 5000 B. G. In the
tomb of Mereruka, one of the Memphis lords the
expedition found the oldest-known examples of
sculpture and painting in historic times.
Subsequent scenes shows the Institutes perma-
nent headquarters at Luxur $50 miles to the SOUTH
where ancient Thebes stood
The next expedition whose work is pictured is
that at Megddo more popularity known as Arnaged-
DON Megiddo guarded the pass through which in
vading armies made their way from Africa to Asia
since the beginning OF mankind
From Megddo the story is carried on to the
other Countries of the fertile crescent.