Show enroll t ble i pg exposition FIVE HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE A paris pan s pa paper er has a very interesting description 0 of the the of a recently L she w was is a 1 lady idzior 01 hig high hrank rank in her day ay and could i not have been packed away with moi e c caro if her friends had destined her for the paris exposition four thousand years off jon on checo theco the coffin effin was painted the ju judgment dg of souls soul B over this painting are written ilic prayers of the funeral service and the confession of the deceased who nt lint only does not herself with any sins ains but es those which she not committed 1 I am not guilty of murder nor of theft nor of adultery another another alic h e genealogy c of f the 1 deceased both paternal and mate maternal imal we will not trans enbe here this series of whimsical names aws the woman or rather lady enclosed in this box where she believed herself sure of reposo repose while awaiting the day when h be fe united reunited re ana ehe should jell city ana b ane s deceived hopes 1 1 ls vav 4 q km k m I 1 I 1 4 the neck was the first portion odthe of the bod body which appeared embarrassed disembarrassed dis afy of ba bandages 11 agda but it was glued up iiii such buch a mabb of that it r i eCI Mired the aid of scissors to remove it all at i once wo saw a bright glimmering through aw ough the dark portions of the nitre ditre which fa still still remained anthe breast and we we 14 rought to fo light a thin leaf of metal cut in the form of the sacred falcon the wings extended and the tail spread as a fan lwe lik e the eagle in heraldry upon this leaf of gold too poor a trinket to tempt gravedigger grave digger a prayer was waa written demanding of the ilie guardian gods of tombs that the heart ana and entrails odthe of the deceased might not be too widely separated A beautiful microscopic c ay of hard stone exquisite for a shain to a watch was attached to a collar of blue glass beads where hung a sort of amulet of tui tm blue enamel in tic the buim fbi m of cf u flail like corye in which the ihu transparency ia governed bythe by the ci cays ys some odthe of the beads become i half op opaque que probably from aitho br ineat eat of the bitumen shiell was poured upon them boiling all this is kotbin nothing ex tra ordinary however these little ob ejects are often found in the cuff coffins ills of mummies and there is not a curiosity i shop but what possesses more or less fit of these little figures in blue paste but an unexpected and touching detail was a flower foun fludd d under each arm so well preserved that a botanist would no doubt have been able to name it was it a lows lotas blo blossom m i or a could tell Ms Us as our company was mostly composed of sa savanis savants sava tin this s incident made us aa all pensive whose hand had placed these poor flowers as alast adieu atthe at the moment when this deeply regretted body was about to 10 disappear forever from mortal eyes blowers four thousand years old what a subject for meditation I 1 A lithe ll 11 berry berryjr ber of fruit whose species it would be difficult to name was also found olin d from time to time in the bandages 68 ferba perhaps a it was one of those narcotics ica abi which renders oblivious those who inhale the fragrance on a fragment zif cloth was written the name of an a n unknown kin king 9 be loning to some dynasty dynast y equally ignored the mummy opened h st ht t tho the Univ universal ensal exhibition fills a void in history and reveals a now new pharoah the face still remained concealed bo b neath its fish mask of linen and bitumen which it was difficult to remove owin owing 9 to its ini immense age tho the ora finally removed tho last laet obstacle and tw two 01 large arge black eyes shone with a semblance of df life from between two iwo blackl end ey eyelids ellas those these eyes were of ena mel such az as the ancients always put in carefully prepared mummy of those two fixed staring e ayea V qa in that dead face was something stalling the corpse seemed to con template the living beings before it with disdainful surprise the eyebrows were left clearly defined by the fallin falling alvay away of flesh the nose we are arc 2 obliged ail ed to avow it was flattened at the end to conceal the incision which had been made in the th e removal of the br brains alls 0 of f N nes ea s and a piece of gold leaf was plaste plastered fod over oter her mouth like it a seal of eternal silence her fine well prex ervel I 1 hair fell in light ringlets about her bei tars ars and was of that lecul i arly reddish tint so recho che among the venetian ladies and which the lie caprice of 0 f some so me of our gantes ele lias brought into favor at the present day Wel hardly believe that this thia peculiar ir boado abade which brought nos khona into the latest fashion could lav have been nat natural ural as 23 without sho she was a brunette liko like her fellow egyptians and this auburn tint is probably pro deuced ty the and brugo 1131 jn in the thie alii same golden ulden tint fint is found on tile the leads arti ct awu vu worn ii expose d ill in llie flie glass case nl what ir in of bliem has the ilia sain coiffure us as III alic ve jais jilis odilo and tit ill t ither a pr judon of cf braids bonning bonni fonni ng it 11 sort ol 01 carim ns the har lia r is ii biorn M orn lit at illia little ly by I 1 tile thu lindy body kui ua belo ed to view dinall in ill its painful nudity ilic i ilski Ils eshou ku on iedy f wilts ivas aed and cohered xv v ili ih little line alil spots eliot s liti lilke c tile mould mi ill ale pi cluro tire cau csiti dl by aliu ilm con on bitet with ilic air arlin ia the ii cs c s oti on made to take out thu the entrails aranin saw sau aust xv wah grains was dropped dropp cil like bran from an un sewell loll doll 1 1 I he long emaciated ai ins with their alic ir booy hands and fi nails a modi sy in ili atti alti tide of abe venus ot med als alip I 1 lip ft et lt cli wj we ic 0 slightly sli lit contracted fai an fn ni tim nerves seined to havo b beli cli originally small the toenails likai lik those cf tle the ai dg cojei ed with bits of bf gold b ola lc leaf va si jalio w i id d C or r out oni pretty tr D r ugly this N s aughter 12 of hn j ius masaud and of romia lady by her critoph it would be difficult to judge Z 0 oth th ng n re remains luain but dry bones enve enveloped 1 aped in it a allu ski n allu in liichi it would bu be imla imis s ble bin to reco va tile b form nf tile egyptian r quinan as painted by ike br bruah i i bh oraf of fr alma Tai I lema adema one inget ur well himself dreaming when lie he thus thug biccs before ln bilm m in in a palpable form florin t k thing wu we cannot call it a being that iii lived dd and loved five hundred years beaure hi fure llie time ti 1 mc of closes and two thousand before that of r chiist chi for such is id the age of the mum my opened at ill ilio universal exhibition in th ill of all tho machinery 0 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