Show I I Ultraviolet Ray Used to o Study Egyptian Graves By turning turing rays of pf ultraviolet on onse some se Egyptian grave av monuments that tat wear very well wel the the Boston Boston Museum of Fine Pine Arts Arts' has brought back to visibility names nae and ad pa painted figures fIge long since lost lot to ordinary sight sIght The monuments monument described as being of poor poor workmanship were made made during a depression period of Egyptian Egy ian tian tan history over years agoA ago As A works work of t art they are extremely extreme extreme- extreme ly y crude explains Bows Dows Dunham Egyptologist of ot the museum staff t re reflecting re re fleeting the state of poverty and ad anarchy under which Egypt suffered i from rom the close of the old kingdom to the he eleventh dynasty They They- are however however how I ever of no little Itte archeological Importance tance tace ance being among the very very scanty i I Hpe C nf f f n ri ii I 1 sal history for rh-r rh this obscure pio i period in Egyptian Such cemetery monuments monument are of special sedal value to Egyptologists because they hey record personal names showing what names were bestowed name upon children children chil chil- hi dren in various localities and periods This Thi information often ofen helps help the tespe specialist to determine the age of ot some Inscribed antiquity of uncertain 1 origin origin On one limestone monument from 1 the cemetery at at could be seen a family of four A short Inscription i- i lon tion about the owner of ot th the th tomb and ton his wie wife had remained visible above the group portrait But the a ultraviolet rays found hidden things thing They brought out the names of the two wo children and details of painting I which had laded faded from ordinary sight sight The little lUe Egyptian boy was wa named 1 Yen which Mr Dunham says probably i means means eans gift of ot Y Yen Yen- n- n leret here who was a god The girls girl's gils name lame was The experiments so far have been tentative Mr Dunham said but they that the ultraviolet ray lamp lamps I 15 s a valuable tool for certain erin kinds kind of Dt f I work with museum antiquities o |