Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-07-25 | Page 2 | Toe Dancing the Rage 2000 Years Ago

TOE DANCING THE RAGE 2000 YEARS AGO LONDON July 25 Too ToG Too dan dancing is not a a. comparatively modern modem French invention invention in in- as is popularly supposed since a pie piece e of E Egyptian pottery over 2000 years old now exhibited by the institute institute institute tute of ot archaeology shows a girl irl tak- tak in jug inc such steps in modern ballet style stylo The antiquity of toe dancing is only one of the thinKs things revealed by br tho the Egyptian collection brou brought ht from Meroe in the tho Sudan by Prof John Garstang Stones of astronomical buildings there show considerable knowledge of the tho heavens heMens On one stone was sketched an instrument for measuring angles and taking elevations while another drawing tends to show that an effort was made to measure the circumference fo the moon Certain marks measuring tho shadows shadows shad shad- owe of ot the sun indicate an effort to get 1 the tho latitude and longitude of Meroe An en entirely tire l new lan language which is at present a a. mystery was a also ei so discovered discovered discovered ered by archaeologists here in certain inscriptions