Show ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS that lime lately been aladie in the tomb of mention was recently made in a foreign exchange of the discovery of the tomb of fifth dynasty of wooden models of two companies of egyptian soldiers each company consists of forty figures about inches hiigli fixed to a wooden board in squads of four the figures arc colored and have the loin cloth they are equipped with spear and shield the spears are as long as the men and the butts carried on a level with the knee the bronze heads are about one sixth the total length of the spear and arc slipped like those of the arabs of today to day the shields have a square base and come to a point and are eight inches long across the narrow portion is a batten through which the hand passes the second squad are black skinned smaller men and wear i scanty loin cloth their arms are bows and arrows and the arrows tipped with flint with chisel shaped and alie tips not sharp the egyptian contingent marches in mcp ular order locked up the negro soldiers straggle gle the latter must have been the because to use the bow and arrow must have required a loose formation |