| Show RELICS OF ANCIENT HISTORY records of tho the C ite appeal for help against A invading I 1 r ut the contents of that wonderful treasury of antique records discovered in 1887 by a woman near the ruins ruing of the jacient arsinoe in upper E egypt have now been laid before the public in maj condors conders work on t the h e tel adarna tablets comprising a translation of the text test with introduction and notes says sayi london table inscribed on clay tablets subsequently baled into brick and ti ri ritten i in 11 aramaic ania abc the anci ancient 0 nt laar sage a of syria in cuneiform chaKis terp we vc have here bothin nothing I 1 less c than thal a oriz 01 ol dispatches sent to the I 1 egyptian lu f foreign or office about MS 14 K 1 C irom from the protected or tributary lin ot of cancan imploring 9 falast various invasions the most interest interesting ling are the let letters tors from the itina of Je malem and other chiefs of southern palestine for in them we can trace the dismay and alarm created by the advance vance of joshua and ana the Ile brews called abiri and people of the desert A very striking dug passage occurs in one of the dispatches to the fugitive monarch apparently app antly a after the battle of ajalon in which seel seeking ring m as it were to apologize for his defeat he speaks s of the leaders of the enemy as sorcerers doubtless an allusion to the miracles of joshua the date of the exodus is also shifted back to that assumed by earlier biblical exponents while the contrary theory of dr Brugsch too hastily accepted as conclusively elusively clu established is overthrown |
