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Show THE OGDEN -- I 1 - L If ft a iS I If - : ?: fcs M rj I'i 1.-3 s..-.-- M i.V 1 i S ll J ff-H- tl i Si . 1 - . .... H. f 51 h,rS iltfcs " W .'I o- R. .J Milzs&Jv ti K 1 .1 SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25. 1921. '3 . II STANDARD-EXAMINE- R )i tin - - K vvvl CA M ! SrS I i f KS 3 li tip Discoveries by American Archeologlsts in V Ethiopia May Throw New Light On Early Church Traditions "in' v-- -, v'jv ..'i-i- : - 1 i rn jsk ! k '9 tali m i .f The CThree Wise Men Presenting Gifts to the Infant Jesus, (From the Famous Painting by Ghirlandaio), Treasured in the Church of the Holy Innocents at Florence, Italy. Kerma and close to Uri, the ITarrxd-Bosto- h expedition found the remains of of Amnion, which threw great i' on temple the history of a later occupation 3f the Sudan by the Egyptians, about 1300 B. C. There also the expedition first succeeded, in penetrating to the burial chambers of the Sudan pyramids. At Barkal itself as well as elsewhere Eu- - one of tho richest and most powerful "of 'iicient times. The discovery was made at Napata, the ancient capital of that country, but now called Gebel Barkal. shows its exact The map on location, in the Sudan, on the River Nile, at the foot of the Fourth this-pag- Anglo-Egyptia- n . ....... . - . V t Jt.i-- . f , 'r- - a. r. -' ..1.,:. , .... x."SM..r -- u.. VOW when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days o. Herod, the king, behold, there came wise men of the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen His star in the east and are come to worship Him. Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise rmen, inquired of them diligently what time the star appeared. And he sent themto Bethlehem and said, Go and search for the young child, and when ye have found Him bring rfim to me again, that I may, come and worship Him also. When they heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they, saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding joy. And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, His mother, and fell down, and worshipped Him; and when they had opened their treasures, "they presented Him gifts ; gold and frankincense, and myrrh. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. f- ' Cataract. The ancient royal cemeteries were found outside the city, on the north, at the modern village of El Kuruw, and on the south Se; V rz''Xvr : m - s- . 1 - ;A:s atNtlr, - -d- ".NE 1 of the great mysteries of Scripioi viatnrv "hna hppn thft nnestion of what became ,of the Three Wise Men-wh- o followed the star in the east and Infant Jesus on the bnMght gifts first Christmas Eye, almost two thousand - v ' to-the- taircheoly3glsts iligently fit-- . 't v. 4 v, 1-1- 2. from this lost kingdom that the third of the Wise Men or kings came. For centuries profane history offered no such ft as proof . V Cairoj last and India, were believed to be at Samarkand, or Samarcand, a rich city of Asia on the caravan route from Palestine to the Far East. But neither history nor legend had thrown' a ray of light for the whole two thousand "years since the birth of Christ' on the mystery surrounding the third Wise Man, the King of Ethopia, or upon the kingdom ha was supposed to rule until a few days ago, when an expedition of .ln-veal- ed C, de-n- . -- -- " American archeologists, , headed by Professor George A. Reisner, of Harvard, the disstartled the world by announcing e twenty-fivkings covery of the tombs of and fifty-fiv- e queens of ancient Ethiopia,-- ' and the bringing to light with the archeol-ogistspade of the story of an entire lost civilization. , According to the traditions of the early church which were universally believed and followed in the ecclesiastical paintings and writings of the Middle Ages, it was if. '. . e the river, looking out over the sand dunes of the Nubian desert, which has never been found a group of partly buried pyramids. Excavation and research proved them beyond any question of doubt to be the tombs of L twenty kings and fifty- CS five queens of ancient Ethiopia, most of whose names had been either clouded In the mists of legend or totally lost to human knowledge. Excavation gradually uncovered the burial chamber of Tirhaqua, the King of Ethiopia . mentioned in the book of Isaiah, who was one of the five Ethiopian monarchs who. ruled over Egypt as well; and then one by one were uncovered the tombs of all the other kings, queens, princes ah d princesses of Ethiopia for a period of over four centuries, an Interval as long as that between the discovery of America by Columbus and the present day. It was discovered that the royal family of Ethiopia had sprung from a tribe of Lybian In a 'Tomb of the King&" Like This, It Is Believed, One of the deserts nomads . who Three Wise Men Was Interred. had entered the Tiart Flth.nn. thpn a cart of Egypt, about 900 vfr t. hppn handed down in arred storv and B. Immortal C., had become EgypUanized. revolted isted at all as a sepa- made by the greatest religious rate entity from Egypt painters of the world are really founded from Egypt, and finally, under Plankhy, on historical fact, then, it is declared, one -conquered a part or the oiaer country, but now at science itself has re- of the tonlbs of the Ethiopian kings which Careful study of the objects and that a lbng line the archeologlsts have begun to unearth scriptlcns found in the tombs has given of rich and powerful must be the tomb of the third Wise Man. a full chronological list of the kings of Ethiopian kings really That a line of Ethiopian kings and Ethiopia over a long period, though not. existed, , even as far queens continued to rule through the time, a complete one through the time of Christ, back as 660 B. C. to 250 0f Christ and lor at least several gener-- and has given the world its first real scien-B.-o and that there Is atlons afterward is proven by the Bible tlfic knowledge of the condition and historical Improb-- itself, for in the eighth chapter of the velopment of the remarkable arts and ability that one of them Acts of the Apostles, it is' recounted that crafts of the time. of a later line could philip, traveling in the desert, met an One of the finest statues ever discovered .actually have paid a Ethiopian who was the treasurer of Queen In Africa, that of the Lady Sennuwy, and . years ago. The Bible is silent on their identity and tells nothing of them subsequent to their Tisit except that "they departed Into their own country." But other holy books and sacred legends which were known to the belief early church and gained world-widWise three the in the Middle Ages identify with three Men great kings, Gaspar, Mel, choir and Balthazar, rulers of Babylon, Ethiopia and "Hind," or India. Recent researches among the manuscripts of Marco Polo, the Venetian traveler, and other mediaeval explorers, has revealed the fact that the tombs of two of the Wise Men, the kings of Babylon ' Matthew, 2: - .' latter village on a low knoll near n - St T e fully explored by white' men, the Harvard-Bosto- . . t . - -- 1 v " NUBIAN V DESERT y s' OMDUJ3MANI- - Berber time of the Saviour's birth. Bible savst found at Kerma. while the pottery includes the finest wares ever made In the Nile ." "Tie Angel of the Lord rpake unto iuo bwuuiw war saying. Arise and go to Gaza, whica ditions which have IsPhilip desert. "And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great auof the thority under Candace, queen all her had who Black Square charge tf Ethiopians, Shows Exact Location of Gebel Barkal, Where Tombs ot the Ethiopian Kings jWere Found. treasure, was sitting in his chariot reading Esalas, the prophet." The full story of the discoveries Dy tne Egyptlan expedition headed by Professor Reisner, of Harvard, brings to light tne storv of an entire lost civilization and proves not only that a kingdom of Ethiopia off existed, but that, although it was cut was from most of the rest of the world, It vaiiey.. han These together with tortoise-shel- l dled swords, ostrich feather fans, mirrors, razors, knives, sandals and innumerable other objects bear witness to a civilization of remarkable quality hitherto practically ' unknown. At Bersheh, in Middle Egypt, Professor Relsner's party found a wooden sarco- phagus, exquisitely painted, which proved to be one of the greatest pieces of Egyptian painting; in existence. It is now. on exhlbltlon in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts J Barkal, two hundred miles south of - " ' ropean .archeologlsts had made' repeated efforts to. find the burial" chambers of the ' pyramids, but had always failed. Equipped with a knowledge of Egyptian buildings methods gained in twenty years of cavation in Egypt, Professor Reisner" Eolved the puzzle, and in the space of a single morning, following his Instructions, . enhis diggers uncovered the long-los- t trance to one of the pyramids. These particular pyramids had been looted centuries ago, and nothing of special Importance was found In them, but two temples containing splendid statues were also excavated, and a variety of other valuable material was found. It was the pyramids of Nurl, opened up close by, that . revealed to modern knowledge the whole history of Ethiopia, as told- of in . of this article. An exact and careful record of everything done and everything discovered was kept by irfeans of diaries, drawings," plans, card catalogues, registers of. the objects and of the photographs. Frequent photographs were taken bo as to- show every stage of the work and make it possible to reconstruct every place that was explored1. When any important statueior object was found, the diggers proceeded with the utmost care, and every few minutes a photograph of the scene was taken and immediately developed, so that the resulting series of photographs would leave not the slightest doubt as to the exact position ia which the object was found. Sometimes this practice made for exasperating delays. Professor Reisner is quoted as telling of one such period of suspense when the remarkable pair of statues of King Mycerinus and his queen, now in the Boston Museum, were found in the valley temple at GIza. "I was showing some visitors about our camp one afternoon when a native boy came running up," he said, "and pulled my sleeve. I knew that the diggers must have made a big find. As soon as I could get away from my visitors I hurried to the Valley Temple, and there, as I headed down into the pit. I gaw a native workman, grinning and holding up a piece of rock. He pointed to the place at his feet where he had picked up the rock, and there I saw in the sand the face of the Queen of Mycerinus carved in slate. Just the face showed above the sand. "It was late in the afternoon, and wo had to stop frequently to photograph the ' place, and then wait until we heard that the picture had been developed and had come out all right before we could go on. "At sunset we had only part of the work done, and we went to bed that bight the-be-Sinnl- - slate-carve- d ?ft statues in Egypt, but with no idea whether the thing was complete or only a fragment. "The next morning we went eagerly to the afternoon work again. At 2 o'clock we had finished, and we knew that the statue, a masterpiece of Egyptian sculpture, was perfect." (, Most interesting of all to many people, however, will be the marvellous dlscov- Reisner and his eries made associates wun reiauon io me iut juk an.d queens of Ethiopia, because of thelr connection with some of themost beau-tiful and Interesting passages of the Bible. - . . |