European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sphinx he Sphinx and he great pyramids on Egypt a Giza plateau Are among the oldest monuments known to humans enduring and mysterious edifices that symbolize our links to the remotest civilization. For 4,600 years the great Stone structures have suffered the ravages of weather the assaults of foreign soldiers the depredations of tourists and the insidious attack of air pollutants slowly losing bits and pieces of their unique identities. But now thanks to a modern tool the deterioration May be slowed. Yale Egypt Logist Mark Lehner is working with architect Thomas Jaggers of los Angeles to store the monuments in computer chips. The chips will provide a permanent record of How the structures look now and provide future researchers with a unique tool to gain insights into the ancient past. For the Short term Lychner plans to make a precise computerized reproduction of the Sphinx. In the longer term he Hopes to be Able to show where virtually every Stone in the to Numen same from and How they were assembled perhaps even re creating the entire construction process in computer animation. Simultaneously with leh Ncry a project researchers sponsored by the Getty conservation Institute Are monitoring weather conditions at Giza. When All this preliminary work is com pc cd the Getty Institute and the Egypt antiquities organization will prepare a detailed con a computer is helping uncover some mysteries of the Sphinx. File scr vation plan. Lehnerts work Quot is the cutting Edge of archaeology a says Jerome Berman of the California museum of ancient Art. Quot archaeology is going to be done with computers and  in 1979, Lehner went to the american research Center in Egypt a a consortium of leading museums and universities a and talked them into sponsoring him in a project to Doc Pumeni the Sphinx. The proposal received egyptian approval and Lehner began work that year. A i spent about two years crawling Over the Monument and drawing All the stones a Lehner said. A in addition i excavated residues of the ancient debris from when the Sphinx was built pulled out tools that the Sphinx builders used and basically did a thorough  he said his work will be used to make models of the Sphinx and pyramids that will allow him to a Sun build Quot them. About five months ago Lehner began work ing with Jaggers. Jaggers has been digitizing All of Lehnerts drawings of the Sphinx tracing the drawings with a a a mouse that enters All of the coordinates into the computer. After All the two dimensional horizontal and vertical contours were entered the computer meshed them to produce three dimensional representations. The two Are filling in gaps in the drawings Jaggers worked with and soon Hope to have the computer Model finished to the Point at which it can be built a if they can find equipment sophisticated enough to reproduce the complicated overhangs and weathering patterns. Once the first Model is done it will be presented to the egyptian antiquities organization on behalf of the Getty Institute. Los Angeles Timas a at a glance any questions Hungary size 35,919 Square Miles slightly smaller than Indiana population 10,571,000 1989 estimate main language hungarian currency forint is -600 at official rate in Hungary travel restrictions tourist visas available at Border. Overview most of country is Flat although the West has Hills and Low mountains. The great Plain covers All of Hungary East of the Danube River and is the major agricultural Region. Manufacturing and Industry employ most of the population. The capital Budapest sits on the Danube eight imposing Bridges connect the older part Buda on the Hilly West Side with pest on the Flat East Side. About 95% of All hungarians Are magyars a Central asian people w to migrated there in the ninth Century. Its a fact the slaying of the heir to the Austro hungarian Empire touched off world War i. Austria Hungary joined Germany Bulgaria and the ottoman Empire in forming the Central Powers. Blue a what makes Robins eggs a in All probability evolution ornithologists say but they Are not sure of the exact chemicals involved. Or for that matter what purpose the color serves. Or Todd Culver an ornithologist with the Cornell Laboratory of ornithology in new York said that eggs Are marked by pigments secreted. From glands in Walls of oviduct just before the eggs Are Laid. Some eggs Are obviously camouflaged and very difficult to find. For example Many shorebirds Lay Sand coloured eggs. For this reason a some suspect a Robins egg is Blue so it looks like a passage flight in the nest rather than an egg a Culver said. This migh help avoid egg eating predators. In other cases eggs appear to be coloured for recognition so Birds can avoid raising the Young of parasitic Birds Jike cowbirds which Lay their eggs in other species nests.  bites a do frogs get Mosquito a Quot they do Quot said Durland fish an entomologist with the new York medical College medical entomology Laboratory. Quot not Only that but one species of Mosquito feeds Only on cold blood animals and even transmits a discs to frogs called filariasis related to heart Worms a he said. In a predatory turnabout frogs All bite Mosquito. Quot mature frogs Are unlikely to feed on aquatic insects like Mosquito larvae a he said a but there Are reports that tadpoles in the Bahamas feed on larvae and mature frogs will eat flying adult Mosquito. C sunday july 8, 1980