Show I OLD EGYPT UNEARTHED i Town of Shepherd Kings Dug From I Sands of Many Centuries I London Graphic At University college this yea e the diP Ii annual annuel exhibition of the years work that has been done dont in Egypt by b the British School of Archaeology and the I Egyptian Research Account has very wisely been so subdivided subdivide as to present I distinct foci of interest so that the in intelligent intelligent visitor in surveying the to tokens tokens kens hens which Professor Petrie and Mr Duncan and Mr Ir Gilbert Smith have I brought home is conscious of or the meaning and the implications of the discoveries The exhibits are elucidated I by plans and models and the rather I formal foral and concentrated descriptions I offered by the published reports report are supplemented each ech day da by little lee lec lectures I tures tames which are delivered in the morn morning morning ing and afternoon by b some one or other I of the archaeologists Last year the chief cief work of the British school was as j I along the eastern estern se of the delta dela be between between between tween Cairo Cair and and it i has ha brought to light after many centuries the habitations of the ancient shepherd kings of the Israelites the and andone andone andone one of the cities cites that they built buit At the excavations laid bare a great camp cap which is certainly older than the eighteenth dynasty and enshrines within its It confines many malY and tombs which of the are graves pe period p nod of these shepherd kings of Israel who ruled rule 2500 2500 years before the coming of or Christ The defenses of ot the camp not unlike a great such as now exists In the Sahara Sahar as a a refuge for traveling caravans were chiefly earthworks and it is evident that Its Is dwellers relied on their archers and slingers to keep oft off of the enemy on the thelong thelong thelong long glacis of the approaches to the walls walIs als But the camp reveals revels that the relations between Israel Isrel and Egypt were not always such as have been supposed sUPPose that time brought Its is re revenges revenges enges and that a great geat wall wal was built buit round the camp by the skilled skied masons of Egypt Egypta a wall wal of finest limestone in blocks brought from the te hills his twenty live five miles mies away awa Truly Tuly when one con contemplates contemplates contemplates templates this link of continuity of la Ia labor labor bor between the pyramids and the te As dam one begins to sympathize with wih ith the Egyptians as a race who have never been ben allowed to cease from their building A very ver Interesting model moel of I this primeval is the camp among ex exhibits exhibit exhibits hibits hibit Not less fascinating is a a piece of temple sculpture representing Ra Rn R messu meu II I slaying a Syrian before the god It I formed fored one side of the temple at the Israelite city cit ot of o at By the ancient site sUe of was wa found the great get mound and an temple which Onais the high I priest built buit He had fled fed from the per persecutions of or Epiphane and came to Egypt about I O B 13 C tc to found a new Jerusalem Jersalem and raise mise a temple to Jehovah where the Jew Jow O might worship In peace ace One of ot the most singular dis discoveries In connection with wit this tem tern temple temple I pIe was a of the builders wa piece account showing brick to have been delivered by a Jew named Abram Abr together with wih other details which corroborate those Josephus that are set down In the history of I |