| Show i interesting discoveries ONE of the great cities of ancient egypt was known to the people who inhabited it as taape but to the I 1 hebrews it was known as am no amen and to the greeks as thebes it was the capital of upper egypt its ruins are the most extensive of any of the ancient cities the nile flows through these ruins dividing them into four sections the most prosperous period in the history of this city dates from 1500 1600 to 1000 years B C at this time it had bad supplanted memphis as the the capital of the Pha mabs here magnificent temples were built for the worship of amen ra or as the greeks called him jupiter am mon in this city were the great colleges eol leges of learning for which egypt was famed here were the cemeteries of thu the theban moa as well as their palaces courts and gardens homer describes it as the city of the hundred gates at one time iteena it bent out an army of war chariots Camby cambeses Camb ses at the time of the persian conquest obtained of nearly from this city Ora gradually dually it fell into decay when strabo the roman geographer visited there ther pIt it was in ruins the Is ie still to be seen it was built by rameses IT 11 and crowned crowded by a colossal colo esal statue of him self weighing about tons but it is broken here was waa fk a statue of some god which was said by the people of the time to emit a sound at sunrise even to the roman monarchs and tourists the ruins ruin s of this great city were an ob lepof elect lect of wonder and curiosity during the he past twenty five years the ruins have again become objects of great interest to scholars and A party of explorers have been at st work for some time on the ruins of tle the temple at Hatasu and news reached here by way of cairo on the dinst that some extraordinary discoveries had been made this temple stands on ft a bank of the nile near it to Is a shaft descend descending Ip perpendicularly through solid rock about 45 feet prom from this shaft bave ve been hoisted mummies their cases and wrappings are as bright riga as when painted years ago the bodies are those of priests and priestesses and royal personae person perso nag agag all the wrappings relics and ts have been carefully handled an and are stored away in a museum for protection and for the study of skilled egyptologists A similar find was made by an arab in 1871 then the mummy af pf of rameses II 11 the ibe jewish oppressor was found the arab who made the find stoe stole from the mummies all toe the wrappings valuables and manuscripts and sold them to various persons who did not understand their worth from an artistic and literary point of view no such profanation can take fake place in the present instance every article r is carefully examined ang and put away even evea the mummies are trans berred with RH nil the ceremony of a religious the boblak museum the manuscripts are considered the most valuable of all the they are said to be in a acetate of and no doubt revelations relate ing to the ancient world of an inter eating character will be forthcoming all the work connected with the ex pl orations to is under the of a board of government official |
