Show jamb vs a STATUE OF RAMESES 11 treasure lately unearthed in thi the british MuE eurT by special permission of the direct or of the egyptian section of the brit ish museum I 1 have just been permit ted to photograph for the first time 4 of pay ra WHO D OPPOSED DOSES the remarkable statue which after having been stowed away as of no im portaree port acce arce in an obscure corner of the museum for several years has just been identified as a probably authentic effigy of rameses II 11 whom the bible calls pharaoh the egyptian tyrant who persecuted the children of israel writes a famous scientist thus we have the first portrait of this famous monarch it is now authoritatively declared that this statue must have been taken from the tombs of the egyptian kings it was brocht to the museum from egypt some 5 ears ago but then its ceness was called into ques tion the other day however C H Hend emondt an egyptologist of eu repute and mr birch the pres ent head of the egyptian section of the museum while poking around ard fashion in the rubbish room of the institution happened on the rejected statue and had it brought out in the day dayl ht after that it took them a campara lively short time to satisfy themselves beyond any doubt of the ge of this likeness of the egyptian ruler who flourished 1333 years before christ and whose tyranny was resist ed by hoses the statue was prompt ly added to the camou egyptian rou room in a f the museum and given one of the pi places aces of honor there |