Show THE OLDEST MAN MANIN IN THE WORLD I New York be oldest known body of any human reposes in the E Egyptian gallery ot the British Museum AU that is it is tak taken n from Crom the Inscription which Yas found on the te containing the mummy This s s nod Body of Ie a man who was wa burled burJe iI Iii aj a grave hollowed out of the ott the w west t bank of the Nile NileA itt It Upp Upper E Egypt Before burial the body was treated with a preparation and vas yas in the thep i p pOSture atu in which it ii now lies on its ite left I sie I O the hands bands before the tho face ft the knees drawn up nearly Oh level with the chin The grave crave was covered with the slabs Ut of unworked stone and itt in it be aide the bod body were disposed flint knives s and a number of yams tases partly filled wIth the remains of fun funeral ral of The mali mati probably belonged 10 a fair skinned light haired race may be e regarded as one of the aboriginal stocks of Es Egypt pt whose set were usually found on the w test t bank of the Nile NUe The style of the instruments found in the S grave rave Indicates that the man lived lied in the later neolithic period of Egypt that is ut remote ages ases long before the rule of thie Menes the first historical king of Egypt EgyptA A wandering rab was the first one onelo to lo O this grave 0 and he reported his find to a British official who ho atel sent il a couple or of soldiers to guard it flay and night The bo body y Is not a mummy of the ordinary ordinal historic Uan tIa period pelio such as the It jC f th Pharaoh of the thc Exodus It was up in ll or cased in a coffin hut but ci merely coated with ith a preparation of bItumen l l by the Arabic word h o word mUmmy i T k A must have hae hunted along th Junks Of 01 the Nile before the time timeo o 0 fhe earliest king which b museums the time or nt Menes who was supposed t tO have havel l rUled le l Egypt B C There previous to lo that time Ime two torte races one the tho conquerors and the thc tue conquered from which sprang the Egyptian race of the tho earliest dy 8 It is with these remote stocks this man has to do Considering tf in which he was found it lis that lie he was as associated with a late of the ne stone age of E l He was buried in hit a character ll neolithic siave and nd has neo ace pots nn and instruments about him Tle are aC like all utI other neolIthic pots q flint Weapons and knives oUter parts of DC the world The fi flint Im knives cs were placed in iii th the grave gran a a part of the funeral nt ual They should be compared with Egyptian flints of a known historic age and the they will be found to be a 11 m most st Identical with them There is or of cOurse no inscription of an any kind on the pots knives or graves all having Icing before the tho Invention of i language Certain Eg p pUan Uan SIan of great antiquity men I 11 call called the tue rt WhO d hair 1 blue eos This man manh manlis lis h Itati hoC of a auburn aubut a shade |