Show find tombs of ethiopian echio F aan kings M 1 gs a expedition headed by professor brings back story of lost civilization LINE OF ITS RULERS TRACED ten years research provides rich collection for harvard university and boston museum get full list of rulers cambridge mass mahs discovery of the tombs of 20 26 generations of ethiopian kings and the recovery of material burled buried for more than 2000 years which makes it possible for the first time to write the history of ethiopia were reported by the joint egyptian expedition of Hard vard university and the boston museum of fine arts the expedition in charge of professor george A elsner Rel Il stier of Il harvard arvard was in egypt ten years its findings in part have been reported from time to time find royal cemeteries the discovery of the lost civilization of was made at now called gebel Bar barkal kill Na panita til tile the ancient capital of ethiopia iles in the anglo egyptian sudan at the southern end of dongola province the royal cemeteries were found outside the city at nurl to tile the south on a low knoll near the river nile the archa eolo fists examined a group of pyramids pyramid 4 which proved to be the tombs of the 20 kings and 25 queens of ethiopia from 60 to 13 C most of whose names had been lost to human knowledge excavations gradually uncovered t the he burial chamber of the king of ethiopia mentioned in the book of isaiah who was one of the five ethiopian monarchs who ruled over egypt and then one by one ona uncovered the tha tombs of all the othet othe U ings queens princes and princesses of ethiopia for a period of more than fo tour ur centuries after the excavations at nurl four our of the greatest kings of ethiopia were still locking lacking kings who like had ruled egypt as well as ethiopia in the third year of se search arch thie these hiir kings with their queens and indeed six generations of their ancestors were wera found at the second royal cemetery at elk el K kur ur vw uw on the north oi of descend from nomads it was then discovered that tha royal family of ethiopia had sprung from a tribe of libyan nomads who had entered the province then a part of egypt about WO B D 0 had become revolted from egypt and finally under Plan khy conquered the older country from this sun scorched place five fire of the kings of Ethl ethiopia opla had ruled egypt and 2000 miles of the tha nile valley and had sent their ambassadors to the courts of assyria and western asia careful study of the objects and inscriptions script ions found in these tombs has haa given the harvard boston archaeologists archa eole a full chronological list of tle tha kings c 0 of ethiopia i op a during ur rig t this s pe period 0 find and a knowledge of the condition an and development of the remarkable arts arta and crafts of the time |