Show HORSE CEMETERY IN EGYPT american expedition has unearthed graves grave of steeds that once bore proud royalty objects at el kurui on the upper nile by the harvard university ver sity museum of rine fine arts expedition shed new light on the lie early ills history of Ethl ethiopia opla the tombs of 0 all the kings from B U C to B C having been recovered it Is knovs that king was a great connoisseur of horses in his account of his besieging the egyptian city of ashmun lie he tells of his anger at finding the horses of king starved thin ns as a result of the siege hence it Is reasonably conjectured that started a cemetery of horse graves which was found at it el kuruc the only burying ground of its kind that has been discovered in the nile valley here in tour four rows are the graves of the steeds of several monarchs they have been plundered but not so thoroughly as to prevent finding pome some of the trappings A t plume carrier a silver head band tour four strings of very large bronze halls hnilo beads amulets and other objects these horses were manifestly sacrificed at the funeral of the king in order that their spirits might accompany his into the other world the sacrifice of men and animals at funerals Is now well established ns as an ancient ethiopian custom by excavations in kerma iut but tile the sacrifice of horses was a thou years before the beginning of the ethiopian monarchy and lo in all the royal tombs of kapaun no other survival of the custom was detected |