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Show SOCIETY NOTE OF OLD EGYPT TooH 428 Feet of Papyrus to ' Tell of Marriage of Ra- meses II., Four Thousand Years Ago. CHICAGO, Oct. 17. Barneses II. died 4000 years ago, but some of the facts concerning his life are just becoming be-coming known. One of these is the story of his marriage, which has just been revealed by Prof.' James Breasted of the. University of Chicago in his first preliminary report of the expeditions ex-peditions which he has been making among the temples and hieroglyphics along the Nile, published in the October Octo-ber issue of the Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature, issued yesterday. yes-terday. He found the account of these events in the sun temple of Abu Sybel, which is one of the principal buildings erected by Kin" Barneses. To tell the story it-required an inscription in-scription of forty-one lines, each about eight feet long, making a total line some 423 feet in length. Prof. Breasted Breast-ed finds it impossible to. give the complete com-plete translation of this story in his article, ar-ticle, but reports the use of a word for "snow" is found here in snowless I Eirvpt for the first time in human history. |