| Show A NEW AC mr kr Pc rc trios decent remarkable discoveries co in egypt A new nely race lias has been found which had rot not any object or manufacture like the egyptians their pottery their stat li ettes their beads their mode of burial are all unlike any other in egypt and not a single usual egyptian scarab or hieroglyph or carving or ainu amulet let or head or vase has been found in the whole ol of tile the remains in question that we are dealing with something entirely different from any age of 0 egyptian civilization yet known Is therefore certain that this thia was not merely local variety is also certain as the strange remains are found over more than a hundred miles of 0 country from to ge byln our own work was near the middle of this district between ballas and in this area and indeed side by side with these strange remains are egyptian towns and tombs with pottery beads and scarabs of the fourth twelfth eighteenth and dynasties ri exactly like those found similarly dated in ili northern egypt tile the strata ot of egyptian civilization were therefore ther uniform over the whole country so far as we are concerned no local difre difference rence can account for the novelties the age of the new race is fixed by the juxtaposition of 0 their burials with those of the fourth and twelfth dynasties and of their towns and bailais of oc the twelfth arid and eighteenth dynasties these evidences prone that they belong to the age between the elie fourth and twelfth dynasties and the known history further limits the date data to between the seventh and ninth dynasties ra ales or a bout about 13 C the race wa was very tall and powerful with strong features 0 a hooked nose long pointed beard and brown wavy hair are shown by their carvings and bodily remains there was no trace ot of the negro type apparent and in general they seem closely akin tn the allied races ot of the libyans libyann and Am amorates orites their burials are always with the budy body contracted and not lying with head to south and face to west just the reverse of the contracted bodies at although most ot of the I 1 graves have hava been disturbed yet clent examples remain untouched among amon tile the 2000 graves opened by us to show that the bodies were generally mutilated before burial one large and important tomb showed tour four skull saulli placed lie between tween stone sione vases on tile the floor a separate heap beal of loose bones of several bodies together and around the sides human bones broken open at the ends and scooped out such ti treatment certainly points to ceremonial kophagy pop hagy other graves are found with all the bones ones separated arid and sorted in classes the type or of the graves Is like ilka that ot of those these in the circle at mycenae open square pits rooted over with beams of wood they are always by reference preference in shoals of water courses showing that the race carne came from a rocky country where excavation could not bo be done except in alluvium the great development ot of the legs points to their having come from hills and riot not from a coast or valley the frequency of forked hunting lances sho shown 0 o their habit ol of chasing the gazelle metal and hint are built both in ili use ly by these people copper adzes addes show that the wood was wrought arid and finely car carved ved bulls legs to a couch illustrate the work vork copper harpoons har poona were imitated fro from in the faini in ili bone copper needles nee dlos indicate the use of sewn garments ine rits and the multitude multitudes multi luden s of oc spindle wheels in fit the town proves how common weaving must have been flint Illi it was worked tar far more elaborately thull than by tile thu ot of any age thu the splendid examples in fit the anti uni 1 pitt pill at are arc not nil seen to belong to these people both knives and forked lancet lancen are found stone vases ot of fill all material from froal alabaster to granite were favorite possessions they are beautifully wrought but entirely made by liand hand without any turning or lathe work A very puzzling class clasa of objects long known in ili egypt are the slate figures ot oc birds and animals rhombi squares etc these now prove to be the toilet palettes palestes pa lettes for grinding malachite probably tor for painting the yes eyes as among egyptians of 0 the fourth dynasty B beads were favorite ornaments and were made or of cornelian lazuli tran i parent serpentine aud and glazed stone stolle pottery was the favorite art of these new people the variety the fineness and the quantity of it la Is surprising few graves are without ten or a dozen vases sometimes even as many as eighty most of these are of the coarser kinds merely used for cOn containing tabling the ashes ot of the great funeral five fire for though thi the bodies acro never burned a great burning was made st at each tun run ural the ashes ashen of which was carefully gathered and preserved sometimes as many as twenty or thirty 1 large jars r full fill see the probably amorite cue cua torn in ili II 11 chron xvi 11 exl 11 1 jer the varieties of oc pottery potte 1 arc ar the alie polished red hematite bacill facing ill tho red with black tops lops wife due to deo idl id l licit in ill tile the ashes aspesi as hesi and the light brown with wavy hand handles leh like th flit pottery A hiter stage ol of pottery was I 1 C f coarse r bro cnown IV 11 and of ol 01 much altered forms copying noma what from 1 eirva 1 I flan types uc of tile old kingdom the wavy handle jars went through a series ot of changes for forming kv a continuous scale by which their relative ages can be been animal shaped vases and many curious sports are found in tile the red faced pottery besides these forms throe three kinds kind of 0 pottery seem to have been imported duff vases imitating stone with red spirals ali and alii I ali figures ures or of ard animals nials and men red polished vases with figures of animals and patterns in n white while and black bowls with incised patterns most like the earliest italic pottery besides these designs a groat great variety ol of marks are scratched crat ched on the local pottery hut but not a sin single it hieroglyph or ien derived from egyptian writing has been foil found rid another tact fact showing h the h isolation lation of these people from the egyptians la is that flint all of till this fane pottery Is handmade hand made the wife wheel el was unknown the source of this new race cannot be discussed ased until the hundreds of skulls and skeletons we have obtained are brought over anti and studied though filici ct point strongly stron fily to in an Arn orlLe connection a dource awl and it must it I 1 UIA lie remembered that probably the amii Amyr amyrillis ilis apro a branch ot of the fat fal libyan 11 race face 1 tho the geographical position is till nil I 1 in la fa var of cf I 1 ahr lip rat rac e linvle come coma int inlo I 1 cant showing that no people had thrust themselves thoms elres up tin the nile valley valleys W lit flinders petrie re trie in fit the london academy |
