Show I II FIND HEART OF RAMESES Vital Organ of Great Egyptian 2iug Preserved In Vase for S c 3104 Years A recent Issue of the Comptcs Hen dus of the Purls academy contains an account of tho successful Identification of the heart of Uameses II the Sesos trls of tho Greeks after havIng been preserved since 128 H C In soda and res no Id antiseptics Some months ago says the New York Times the council of the National Na-tional Museum of the Louvre acquired jiossessloii of the four vases In blue enamel which contain tho viscera and heart of Hnmcses ii and bear Inrgc medallions representing the names nnd attributes of the king Tho directors of the Egyptian museum muse-um desired absolute confirmation as to the contents of the vases and intrusted the examination of their contents to M Lortot who with his colleagues Professors Hugouncnq Helmut and Kigali made n careful physiological examination ex-amination Three ot the vases con tinned banduBOs of linen tightly compacted com-pacted nnd hardened by tho carbonate of soda old aromatic resinous substances sub-stances of icdtilbh color which had been employed as cntlseptlcs and hail 1 uu iiiuuauiy contained the stomach lutes tines lad liver of tho great king These viscera however wore only found to bo represented by r quantity of grams Inr matter mixed with a largo proper lion of powderol carbonate of soda nnd fo could not ho Identified The fourth vase which was fitted with n lid or cover adorned with the head of a jackal proved to contain this heart This organ was found trans formed Into n kind of oval plate eight centimeters long and four centimeters wide Tho substance of the heart was hornlike and the saw had to be need In obtaining sections of It for examination nod finally the razor so as to reduce these sections to tho attenuation nercs snry for microscopic examination Under tho nilscroscopo these sections gave unmistakable evidence of tho muscular mus-cular fibers peculiar to tho heart especially espe-cially characterized by being arranged in bundles of such fibers crosslhg each other Since this special muscular arrangement is not found In any other part of tho body except the tongue and as the mummy of Kamescs II which Is preserved at Cairo contains the tongue Intact the experts have no doubt whatever that tho vase actually contained the heart of Barneses II flat tened and transformed Into nflhornllke substance by its long sojourn In the soda preservatives King Ramesos II died 1258 years be fate the Christian era and hence some 3164 years have elapsed since his heart was first embalmed |