Show ANCIENT JEWELRY FOUND Most magnificent of all the finds and the crowning feature of Prof Pctrlcs last years excavations at Abydos Egypt was the discovery of four bracelets brace-lets belonging to the Queen of King Zcr who reigned nearly 5000 B C The bracelets were wi ought with the most ingenious and delicate workmanship workman-ship Even the magnifier did not reveal re-veal the Joints so perfect was the soldering The exquisite group of Jewelry Jew-elry was found In the tomb 01 King Zcr the ruler of the first dynasty and belonged to the Queen it was found in a hole of the tomb In a mummy wrapping Some plunderer had mutilated muti-lated the Queens body and being disturbed dis-turbed had broken oft an arm of the mummy and thrust It into a crevice of the wall The linen bandages were cut and to the great surprise of all four magnificent mag-nificent bracelets of gold on the mummy mum-my arm were brought l to view The fin cat bracelet Is formed of alternate plaques of gold and turquoise each surmounted sur-mounted with the royal hawk and paneled pan-eled to Imitate the front of the tomb or palace This bracelet consists of thirteen gold and fourteen turquoise plates In the form of a facade whereon was Inscribed the name of the Queen The gold was worked by chisel and I burnishing The second bracelet had a centerpiece I center-piece of gold with amethyst and turquoise tur-quoise beads and bands of braided gold wire This IK entirely different In design de-sign from the others The two groups of beads are united at the aides by bands of gold wire and thick hair probably from tails of oxen rita plait was made with three gold wires and three hairs interwoven The fastening of the bracelet was by loops and button but-ton of a hollow ball of sold with a shank of gold wire fastened In It The third bracelet Is of spiral beads of gold and lazuli In three groups The middle of each group consists of three beads of dark purple lazuli which Is carved In Imitation of the spirals of gold whe The gold Is very pure and Is quite soft and unelastlc Making the fourth bracelet are four groups of hourglass beads amethyst between gold with connections of gold and turquoise No source Is known for such a strange form The threading Is done by having a groove around the middle of each hourglass passing a thread on each aide of It and binding them together with fine gold wire The of hourglass beads arc each of groups gold on cither side and of amethyst In the middle The turquoise arc of lozenge shape with gold caps on the end |