Show TRE OF HISTORY about halt half a year ago a tomb was discovered near thebes and fists now believe that it has been identified as that of menes the founder of the ln first egyptian dynasty the re intille wab unearthed are supposed to be those loose of that ancient ruler of the land of 01 the nile with whom the history of the me country begins menes united the people built the large city of memphis bent the river out of its course to obtain ground for his gigantic it tures S and an carried tsar ried on successful wars an T short lort he be has haa a place in the history of the human race as aa one of the great empire builders the independent commenting on this thia recent discovery in egypt states the conclusions warranted by it and similar archeological archaeological arche finds somewhat as follows we first know egypt as inhabited by people living in the stone age they had no metal tools and did not understand how bow to erect buildings of brick then down the nile came a conquering race probably from baby lonia ionia they were probably darker than the semites of arabia from one of whose settlements in ur of the Chal dees abraham came to caran canaan they mixed with the first inhabitants of egypt were temple builders and carried their conquests back as tar far as I 1 the he banks of the euphrates this carries us bark back to the beginning of history which is the beginning of writing there has been some anxiety on the part of some that archeological archaeological arche research eventually would prove the unreliability of the mosaic chronology and perhaps throw doubt upon the historical statements of genesis in this connection the subjoined sub joined remark of the independent is important back of writing there is no history only geological periods how far back writing and history go we cannot yet measure but new discoveries are every year helping us approximate to the time the best beat we can now guess is that history may be traced back some four to five thousand years before christ not very different from the mosaic chronology |