. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 255 In 1914 the claim of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft to the site naturally lapsed, and in 1920 the site was granted to the Egypt Exploration Society, then anxious to resume its excavations in Egypt, interrupted in a course of over thirty years only by the war. The first campaign was opened in December 1920 and continued until the end of March 1921. The general plan was to continue the systematic clearing, recording, and planning of the town site, but at the same time to attempt to find the cemeter\' in which were buried the middle and poorer classes, as opp
. Discovery. Science. DISCOVERY 255 In 1914 the claim of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft to the site naturally lapsed, and in 1920 the site was granted to the Egypt Exploration Society, then anxious to resume its excavations in Egypt, interrupted in a course of over thirty years only by the war. The first campaign was opened in December 1920 and continued until the end of March 1921. The general plan was to continue the systematic clearing, recording, and planning of the town site, but at the same time to attempt to find the cemeter\' in which were buried the middle and poorer classes, as opposed to the nobles, whose rock-tombs in the cliffs have already been described. In the town area it was observed that the German excavations had been mainh' devoted to clearing the houses on both sides of a long street more than fifty yards broad, but quite unpaved, which ran from still seen in native houses in Egypt. Rough logs and beams were laid across from wall to wall; these were covered with smaller boughs and twigs placed at right angles to them ; over these, again, were laid reeds, bound together in some cases into rough mats, and the whole was surmounted by a thick layer of mud. The arrangement of rooms was simple. In the centre of every house lay a square room which we may call the Central Hall. As it was surrounded on all sides by rooms, it could only be lighted by carrying its walls up higher than those of the surrounding apartments, and inserting small windows in them at a high level. In the Central Hall, as, indeed, in most of the larger rooms, the roof span was considerable, and so one or more columns of wood set on limestone bases were used to support the roofing material. In every Central Hall two pieces of furniture commanded notice. The first. A TYPICAL irolSE Al-TL OF TIIE liASTliRN DESERT IS SEEN IX THE BACKGROUND. Reproduced by courlesy ol Ihe Egypt Exploraiion Society.) north to south near the eastern edge of the town. It therefore seemed advisable, inste
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