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Show Craves In tho Crimea. Some interesting results were obtained from the archaeological explorations carried car-ried on in the Crimea during last summer. sum-mer. Professor Vesselovski found paint-,! paint-,! human bones in two graves six skel-Vms skel-Vms in one grave and one in another. V well ltnown orclucologist Professor Vipler, of Dresluu, who was present -V;ir at the congress of archaeolo-i;TwTi)scow, archaeolo-i;TwTi)scow, is (k opinion that these 'graves! b'longed lA.he original inhabitants inhabi-tants jhe Cfirln!, tho Cimmeriuns of IleroVitu's." 11 was a nsage with them to IaV their dead on elevated spots so that the birds might consume the flesh. Wrhen quite bleached they painted tho skeletons with some mineral pigment, tlraves containing such painted skeletons have been found iu Central Asia, but only in a few instances. Only three such graves had been previously found in the Crimea. Professor Grempler proposes to take the skeletons with him to Paris, and exhibit them at tho congress of anthropologists an-thropologists to be held there during the autumn. Boston Transcript. |