| Show Tim BEGINNING 01 1I1STOK1 About half a year ago a tomb was discovered neat Thebes and archeolo Blsla now believe that It has been Identified Iden-tified ns that nf Mtnes the founder ot the first Egyptian dynasty The i > mains unearthed are supposed to lie those of that ancient ruler of the land ot the Nile with whom tho history of the country logins Mcnes united tho people built tile large city of Atom pills bout the river out ot Hi course to obtain ground for life gigantic struc lures and tarried on ucceCuI wore In short he has a place In file history oC the human race os one 01 the great empire builders The Inependent commenting on this recent discovery In Igypt states the conclusions warranted by It and similar archeological finds somewhat as follows Wo first know lgypt ni Inhabited by people living In the stone age They had no metal tools and did not understand how to erect buildings of brick Then down the Nile came n conquering race probably from Ilaby Ionia They were probably darker than the Semites 01 Arabia from one of whose settlements In Ur of tho CIII1de Abraham came to Canaan They mlxcd with the Hint Inhabitants of Im it were temple builders and carried their conquests back as far as the banks of tho Euphrates This Carries us back to the beginning ot history which Is I the beginning of writing There has been some nnxlely on the part ot oomo that archeological research re-search eventually would provo the unreliability of the Mosalo chronology and perhaps throw doubt upon the historical ntntoments ot Genesis In this connection the subjoined remark of tho Independent Is I Important Back of wrltlnu there Is I no history only geologic Periods How Jar back writing anti history go wo nnnot yet measure but new 1Ioovrles are every year helping us approximate to the time The bold wo con now guessi IA that history may am laced back some four to live thousand Years herons Christ nt ver > different tram the toalc chronology |
