| Show UNIVERSITY HAS FOUR mUR CREWS CRES I IN J EGYPTIAN AREA Explorers Near Lord Carnarvon Carnarvon Carnarvon Car Car- narvon Concession Find Fine Many Tombs but All Have Been Looted PHILADELPHIA March 14 The H.-The The University of Pennsylvania's Egyptian Egyptian Egyptian tian expedition which has been delving delving delving del del- ving Into burled buried history at the en entrance entrance entrance en- en trance to the Valley of the Kings where the tomb of ot Tutankhamen was recently found is preparing to move to a cooler climate to continue continue con con- searching for bits of information Information tion relating to the activities of men in past ages The university is now conducting four expeditions One is In the Valley Valley Valley Val Val- ley of the Kings another at Memphis Memphis Memphis Mem Mem- which was the oldest capital capita of Egypt a third In Palestine and another In Babylonia where In connection with the expedition of th the British museum an an ancient temple tempIe believed to have been built bunt years before the birth of Christ was discovered red Announcement of the finding of this temple was recently made Inscriptions were found fount showing that King repaired the tho place during d his reign feign In the the sixth sixth century B B. B C C. The university has arranged the thew w work rk of her excavators so that when the hot weather season comes In one place they move to another thus assuring almost continuous effort MANY TOMBS LOOTED The work now coming to a close clos is is at Thebes In an area adjoining the concession of Lord Carnavon During the two seasons of digging at Thebes several tombs have b been en discovered constructed in the same sam way as that of Tutankhamen but bu butaU all aU of of them open and looted The objects found In each were not o of Interest to robbers such as Jars inscriptions and papyri In the last named class of objects ob objects objects ob- ob a really notable discovery was made at the close of last season when two sealed pottery cylinders were found within the entrance chamber of a tomb which contained rolls of papyri These were In a perfect state of preservation On the outside of each roll was a docket dock dock- et written in ancient Greek an and 3 upon examination the papyri proved i to be Demotic documents dating from B B. C C. to B. B C They are mostly contracts and contain the b business transactions of a family family fam fam- ily lIy during the period of years which they covered These papyri are arenow now being translated in the university museum SOUGHT J KINGS KING'S AREA All AU of the tombs discovered orthe on or the museums museum's c concession were were o of officials of the government oi of of Thebes s who wished to be burle d 3 near the kings and whose tombs are therefore found in c close se proximity to the royal resting places At the same time that the university university sity SHy museum Is working this concessIon concession concession con con- cession at Thebes It is also excavating excavating v at Memphis fourteen miles mUes above Cairo where the museum ex expedition expedition ex- ex discovered several years year ago ago the royal palace of an extensive structure covering a large area and enclosing numerous courts The tl floors ors of this temple are found 25 feet below the surface of the ground The lower walls and sometimes doorways and parts of columns are found standing One of the interesting discoveries made at this place is the head of a alIfe alife alife life size statue of Akhnaton the law in of Tutankhamen The features are exquisitely modeled model d and the sensitive face is rendered In Ina Ina ina a wonderful lifelike manner ELABORATE COLARS The throne room of ot the Meren Meren- palace especially the dais shows rich sculpture and elaborate use of color The ornaments and hieroglyphic Inscriptions on the columns and the stonework surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding the doorways are Inlaid with beautiful pale blue fayence Surrounding the throne room are dressing rooms retiring rooms and anda a bathroom which originally had Excavation here Is still In progress progress pro pro- gress and its completion is expected to throw much light on the domestic do domestic domestic do- do and official life of the Pharaoh i. i M Memphis was the capital of Egypt from the earliest times down to about 2000 B B. C C. Then the Pharaohs m moved ved their capital south to Thebes which arose to great splendor Herodotus Herodotus Hero Hero- dotus referred to tho the hundred gates of Thebes This city remained the capital until Alexander the Great founded the new capital at Alexandria Alexan Alexan- dria drIa except for that brief Interval when built his new capital capital capi capi- tal at Tell el in order that he might start everything in Egypt afresh afresh- religion art architecture and government His Interesting ex experiment experiment experiment ex- ex lasted for tor about a generation generation genera genera- tion or until Tutankhamen restored the tho old religion reversed the policy polley of his law in changed his name from to Tutankhamen Tutankhamen Tut Tut- as a symbol of his reversion reversion rever rever- sion and went back to Thebes as the seat of his government who Is regarded by most authorities as the Pharaoh of the exodus reigned 1225 to 1215 B B. C C. or about years ears after Tut Tut- |
