| Show Y k 1 81 IiO HOW AMERICAN I n ARE DIGGING GI I In E lo I a n e e x p 0 r n gy p I UP THE KINGS OF PHARAOHS I i TIME t I c o If the lit A fret nit rus by b Frank d G Cart I I MI rrt i Acv RY l n I nave hay hayL 1 nul Ting aboUt b t through L loan who 1 ml n I rat f t th the t th ur I Ir I four I i vl r ngo 1 I have hale ha IOn gone IOnI le I I f r 10 ihs wh the th thI e re I i a out our ur of th solid rooks rock p r 1 1 11 1 ne hv haw vie vb Ia t h i i of lIf if other th s lat own old r j The Th last I I letting place placer ii if t r th the e monarch I of rat f fr r be ben n dk dl I II IW I I h work urk I III still r tin is of historical value yu lIlu yuI o IN EGYPT l I h li h ht t In le be he beIM h heI t IM III Irani Thin Thle In ko lh th thIh the I h g th Ih Mir tt hll r it I l the th mcm of liar Har ml nd nl the Ih Boston I In III of ot the nat na nu nuin nabI tr p I in Uli n nh who h i wr were v re hurled t bI of t tho th t 1 i gr lIT groat Mt Pyra ITa ITaI u I i t HI al I th the of nf King Kin I 1 exploration h I N t I sut l II ht Ort r f il des 11 i and on the fhe Cn td State f h army ii m my o or no H roling nr nar l hr irre pert nan of the t ir I II i renal rove I tomb tombs lie tic If Is now t to H I of rat Theo lor M l k If ni rl n who a ho has h hit his h tab lab I ll 11 MI t I Jim m year yer tear after 1 MI rte un thi Ih rt bris and look ook Ir d evidence of off I f r i I rin t mv my m trip of 10 to ton f n h who whop ho hoI t p I r I i t r II 1 be t excavation rd t 1 c r t h h w i m me through 1110 1 P khan In and sad d dr 1 I i r rs 0 un on th tM well trail fa rt t I 1 r t rr i i ih the valley n nahe thi ahe ill 1111 n ni ii h nr tl gong on ont onn Jid t If nf f n a gang Reng of f r It Jrr i t M n a i 1 I x now working l r rAilA ALIF Y HP rap THE THC KINOS KINoe Hi l let i niu m u tell t i 1111 It which the th then ancient ancien I Ir r p 4 i I h selected elected el for tor their t I T Pi r try II ue u i to hide their r in n Mi such h i 1 way ny that posterity riI to 1 I t r find rInI i them m and to cover Id V II hit hl i t future generation would r I i 1 i M n that they Ih and n their treas tra trap Ir Iro o v W iu I IHnath Our cemeteries are re ref f tin II beauty of their eur ur urr r i like Ithe to turn up our ouri ourt i t Hi h dun l 1 s and to In have hye ther thep the r p i II o hider a over oyer overt t pd TIll TIr I In add Id kinga sr I i hi hr h dr dry desert uti sett Ui Is r glon about a far farr gr Ir r i ii 11 I illi 1110 an all a Cleveland nd In III I In InI In P i M I th I h Atlantic and fully alx lx n I nt i I k fi r i nn in the green ren strip on onh h ii li 11 li Ir 1 i pe ogle pl lived 1 I can an Im lm lmarr arr i u pin pia pi n more dreary At It 1 thin this pin p t II Nil i Il to wailed on the west let westby we letb t tb by b i r M v li but n line mountains mountain A As Aa Aai i fk fr Hi th II i rs reach the valley la Ia laih I ih oh u a n 4 t 1 I c but lx beyond ona th ti i a ii H a oi ii t ii it u ue drear drar an as any pr r r i 1 ih rh Kill g itra Thorn Thore I Ic not a Ikla I of lIf if grass Ira nut not a prig Irl of r v JU J n f ot of f nil nn kind kin Th Theo iv U b I ml nil n mill and II mountain the Ut lat dH Im i ragged lugged I ed a as al the wildest 3 1 s of f UK Ih Km kic lI Mollie Home of the sums tun i ar HI up In great prec rs In then I he there are fort tort UK hk i and imd other of t tur 10 R OLD TH Tn Om I I too iTo visit elite this ht valley alley villa one 11 oom to 10 Luxor uxor which h Is I lust Jut ab lt on th the II Ito of ot old Th 0 th lbs UlL 1 of ot tj KI tot t In the Ib days da 0 Of Its Ite It most mast m t lall na nest t I The eity It lay on both st also M T f the Nile Milt but bUI Luxor Is III on the i st m hank ik and mil I J hud hed h tn to cro cross the in m 6 It fern bout boar and anti ride Tide for tor an hour hur m nr 0 rn 0 nth through nuh the desert df ert before I 1 tarn run Into Int th lh valley alley of ot the kinge 1 H I r n donkey bo boy 1 0 was wRe a goal I one on end hl hie donkey were young Hue Hla HInn name nn wan 1111 w Joeph and the brute I It t 1 trl w waa i celled called hud had a I slice duos of skin akin nt n h n n II big ul an cc a dollar trots from hl hip rump and nd Joseph pricked this I 1 from time lime to time to in hurry hutT him himI MI I nt We 8 crowed the green field Ide Binding our way war In and out along ajona the th rani n Is I until we 11 oame me to 10 the Ut des desert de dent desart art ert and IId entered a I wild gone torfe 0 walled with lIh rocks rock of yellow limestone and anil nd with 1111 a conglomerate Nn mixture of nf mm flint and an limestone of curious formation Thi Thu gorge leire 1 shows chow evidences evidence of ot having b hn hen en cut lut ruin ut by II some owe mighty Irm of the th pest past There re are mam m of or debris A at mg the th Ides and the th wa waI WY way I rough roh except fa t on the toga rOil ha h hac tern t n made ma by b the explorers at al the tile valley from the Ih 1 11 om rah mould n lI e that It II MUK II m nn thing thin other than th a desert gor If 0 and unlIt It II wi was II I not ot until I J was wa right rl 11 I ID In it II that I realised r It waa way a I emI ery Their art are no fra an or monument m monuments u ment ments sad and a the kin rv r try cry sign that might might Indicate lr place They Thov dun dug nut ut UI K gr I ut t 1 under the Ih i L bed i of nf f t Ill K ir r rt i up ur river rinse arranged d cisterns eltern for their roper proper but ht hn u i th h hr y han ban to flushed finished lah they lift left mi n R nU RIt aR aRIl U It waa YU In n nature and Ind for this r rn ran non 11 their thel tomta tomb remained cl for ast a ur on tt and unknown IN TN THE THI TOMBS Front From Pro time to time ho ver one nor n nor or another was wan dl co rol l iv rut rill fum i bo the Ute Greek Hk p a 1 who 10 was waR wa ally alV wh hn u o li h i t wa was 11 born speaks of in 10 of oC than m u i t tIns Ins inar I worthy wO of a 8 visit and An or nth h i n mentioned by writers writer later Inter mi on I Dur Du DurIn DuIng Inn Ing In our most i i th 11 thore 1 I wore Wit ore a mina 1111 lost bet and It alts II n not 1 u a ua r am a me Arab grave 0 robbers robbI I t i t curious curlu that it II UHS w wl fur i l that tha the tomb tombs had again hi h e n i m dl 11 crEd corred and ind were being MIln l ly tin t h vendale niall The Thi fh thin Ihn Mint nt t to work ork and nd their hav hn r ulti d In the tb opening up of ot tomb after tomb until we now have 8 what might be b palled called a subterranean city of the dead dad d ad right here her In the th heart of the Libyan desert The tombs tomba are nothing like our burial burtal vaults vault ault They The are aff large lar rooms cut rut out of the solid rock rack with Ith walls wall all as straight 1 and aa as a smooth as a those thor 11 of a mon mason monTh They Th are ant M reached by b many steps tep going down Inclined IlI plane planes until they bring brine you ou far tar below belo the surface of ot the th alley and away a ay down under the mountain Each Kab king kin had hid his hi own tomb end and nd h he hA decorated It I with sketches and Ind paint paintIngs loge Ings representing the life of ot hit his hi time The Th telling are ar beautiful From sane of them the thi figures of gods od and god od odd def d look Iok down upon you ou Others Other are colored In geometric lines and In III some men mn and women are curved carved In bure lief Ile out of oC the solid rock to k then painted In of ot the scenes cenea lIen are re reo religious and from them the Egyptologist Fo gist I t Is ii I able to tell t us UI what the people of ot that day believed cI They also elan Ian show how the they worked and lived when hen our ourt t ancestors were savages savage MV In the wilds Of ot e and Asia AsiaIn AsiaIn In some acme of the tombs lomba I 1 saw the mae mas massive m IJ sive elve stone atone boxes boxe In which the of the dead dad kings king lay I measured one which was wall 10 feet tet long Ions six lx Ix feet wide wid and anil eight feet fert high It was waa hollowed out of a olid block of or granite and It weighs Helena many tons ton That Thet mighty might burial casket casket C was wan cut out of the quarries of far fr above hero here h cm on the blank benke of ot the tM Nile It must have been ban brought down the river on a barge targe rge aril ami carried to this thle place piece When hen It was wa on the ground it ft had wd to tx be lowered down Into the th vault and that without modem machinery An As I went through the th tomb tombs I MW saw MIL several ex era such lum caskets and the archeologist who guided me mt showed me the th holes In the th stone wall walla w of ot the entrance ways ya whre vh ro beams had hud been put across In order that thit ropes might be used to prevent these atone mar mases A Visit to tn the Valley of the TomU T o r In 11 tk tl New Templar T Now Be Being B Bing Bini ing ini Unc rth fl What the Egyptian Exploration Fusel Fund if ie i In Inthe II the c Footstep of A Look Leon at et Hi Mummy W Ha Hll a ee HardHearted as ad Painted 4 H H u r H 0 H v r i e NN t 11 I f il I I X t I 1 k kt kt t 1 1 v t 1 u ut 1 t t N Cl 1 t t I 1 1 1 1 j jj I I t t tt til I i IJ i t b bi il i 1 s I t I x X A t t i A 1 v t tv TEMPLE OF THEBES SHOWING OBELISK ON r r OF THE COLOSSI OF MEMNON rii l d for tor tin tI II o Niu In by II 1 run I I d I 1 rill u u u u u u u U u n n sliding two tae t far fr when whim let lei down It Is I a I J fob li nw tee ua us to handle hand I iron Iran safes cafes t tot of ot even ven rubs euba e One of these them th Stuns Mena boat bosee would d weigh ua as mui mutt mud h u as such sueh ue cat safes tea and 4 th the old aM J Ilau 1111 i la us tarried thorn them tb where W h they Lb pleased WITH l Indeed d 1 venture venturI the e civil engineers of oC the th Pharaohs Pharaoh could fluid te our eur people l much All about bout 1111 this reg n there are monuments which It U would the th ing n rs of ol today 1011 to handle T k the tM of Memnon tb t the two mighty tone Ion ng r s In the th Nile valley within a few miles mile of et wh was r I 1 am now nOll writing faeh Ho J aeh la Is I as a high a as a It six lx x story tor house h and d the tone stone Hate p upon which which they thy rise rice rt II 11 feet above the ground I 1 rode by them an as I 1 came ami am home ham from Dom the valley of the wr kings kin and climbed up and ran the tape menu UfO ure over their loge legu The legs Ie 18 1 feet from sole 1 to knee The feet are each euh 10 feet fee tin In length h m n long that hat t one would till flit the box of a IA farm wagon on from Crom end to end and so an wide that It could hardly be fitted fined within It The arms anne from finger tips tip to t elbow each teh measure lre 15 16 feet and the th middle linger finger of or each Uh hand l I is a yard and a I half halt in III length An All A I Mood toneS beside the th pedestal with my m feet Beet on Gingerbreads saddle I 1 could not net reach to the Ih top loP and I 1 find It difficult to gi give any comparative idea Idon of ot the enormous weight of the truc structures tures luree V These The The two mighty might sit hit II side Ido pI by aide Ide on the edge ed of the Ml II 11 valley 1111 allf They were erected In honor of an Egyptian king kin who lived 3 no year yran em ema ago a and the temple teple which he con constructed behind them Ihm has ba now non entirely disappeared They are aft right on Oil the edge of the valley alley with th desert mountains In the rear r My way WRy was Ill through green n fields field and anti as a I 1 looked hooked at nt them 1 J thought of how they IhlY hod had watched the th people sowing owing wi und and reap reaping reaping Po PoIn ing In for more mo than SM 1100 I years year rl Not far rr from these t monument lII am are the ruins ruin of or the Temple of Rom II 11 the Pharaoh w who ho oppressed o the Lb Israel Israelites ites It and end would not let th them m go 0 Among Amott th them m I saw the tb remains of a atatu statue tatu of that old king which show that thai they belong hel to a structure at al least tn It feet feel high hi There TheM la I no granite nearer near nearer n ner er here hare ff than Ihan In the tile quarries of ot As Aa A and this mighty statue tatu must mum have haye been cut out there then and brought down dawn the Nile OlIe to I Thebes a distance of ofUS US 1 mil TOTING TOTINO THE K Consider Conder the th a h the made at those thoa quay QUI firs ril and carried cabled down the Nile to t Tin hes he and also aJao to Cairo Calm and nd t Three are two to obelisks still mill at this thin place You Ton may see gee them In the Ih great m temple IDle tern e eat at Karnak which II Is not mor than hall I aM a 10 minute walk k from Luxor uxor Thy They weigh welp something like II t taus n ii oh Ih M h and It would lake tale 1000 I horses to 10 haul them If u N n the th they were more I broken up end and longed upon wagons Kach l ll is I ont one solid s did binck of ot granite lilt end and each eael wee was In to that to this place plane There are tione on the Der al aI temple which show that these Ih two obelisks were W dug due dugout dugout out of ot the quarries covered cn rod with bier carvings brought here and put up nil all II In the space apace E of ot seven iven ven months month I doubt whether our engineers could do dt the job Jota aa a quick or as a well 11 We e thought It a wonderful work to 10 bring the Alexandria obelisk from Egypt to New York Tork T rk It was IM l there In th the bold hold of n a steamer inn ui 1 to hr I II load I It the th bow of the vessel 1 had to no I b h bi hUI he i cut ut UI and the obelisk dragged In Th Jh obelisk bUk at Parts Paris wax was tarried across rna ih tit t Mediterranean on a 11 barge and th t which now stands stand In London wit t brought there t in an Iron cylinder 1 II lid which ways WAD carried to tn In III place piece pI and built around th obelisk aa a It la lay upon the th shore hn n 11 the great crest t stone atone was waa 11 thoroughly t e en n nr r md th the whole was wan 0 rolled Into the M It e 1 I and an lowed loId lo to I 0 l nn n Mtr r landing the modern mn ern engineers had hll great groat trouble to get the th where were they Ibe wanted want them That of New Nw York I was waa rolled along alon upon Iron bolls bail which weta ran In Iron grooves laid down for tor the tha purpose pUl Oat and that of ot London Lond was slid over greased JT ways wa to the th place elute where here wll hereIt It now stands stand tan on the of ot the thc Thames The oldest 1 tempi lentil of nr f F Egypt pt In by h 1 I years eura 1118 Is II nuts nou hi being In d hen by I 10 N the Ih agents nf tit the Egyptian EI inI 1 This lies lie near the famous tent ten 14 1 of ot Der lIEr al II mid and In a branch any illey from train where the tomb of 01 the t O kings nrc nr When I 1 visited d It II the excavators ex exa e a were r at work rk and th the men In lit charge harge told me m they had great hople h of nf f making malt In valuable discoveries It was waa with Janice James Teakie T kle I t the th Am Ami i Iran n representative of the excavation fund that I 1 went wn over the lh temple I Imet Imet met Int him at the little douse boua hi h forma form th the laboratory and horn home nf of the foreign explorers and had a I abat hat bat with th the other member a se to th the a Of ot the work ork The Tile fund I 1 II I supporting here her a r of nt from tram Canada unit and mi tier I II fitted tle who Wiio W are i the l Egyptian Jt laborer They The fh h I quite n It on n army n of men mn nt nl work woi k and nul It I have hove h i u SUM sorrowful Of ot tuna h i Ui they find goes to tin the mux an HI III Cairo and the th balance to thi Ihl nn rap tries which aich rl in to l e tin Ito r i ii rI i I It i t Ion to t th Ih amount of or lh thI 1 I 1 54 The Th it sou no tit if erica erlin ha has i mine ome from a 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