... archaeologists in the region, and in so doing hastened processes of change in unimagined and unintendedways. A comparison of the accounts of two leading archaeologists datingfrom the close of ... Americansvisited the region, with the exception of the Holy Land and Egypt, and therewerefewcommercial or other relations.By theend of the nineteenthcentury, with theexpansionofmissionaryactivityand,ofcourse, ... American museum.There was a significant policy change in these years, which indicated the growing involvement of the United States in the world of the 1920s. In the prewar years, the State Department...