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Show ' THE OLDEST HUMAN BODY. "Tho oldest body of any human being be-ing now reposes in tho Egyptian gallery gal-lery of tho British museum," says tho Amorlcan Antiquarian. "It Is the body of a man who was buried In a shallow gravo hollowed out of tho snndstono on tho west bank of the Nllo in Upper Egypt. This man must havo hunted nlong,ttho banks of tho Nile beforo tho tlmo, of the earliest mummied king which tho musouro possesses beforo tho tlmo of Mcnoa. who was supposed to have ruled Egypt at least 6000 B. C. Thero were previous to that time two prehistoric races, ono tho conquerors and the othor tho conquered, from which sprang tho Egyptian raco of tho earliest earli-est dynasties. It is with theso remote stocks that this man has to do. Considering Con-sidering tho condition in which he wns found, It is evident that ho was associated with n Into period of tho new stono ago of Egypt. Ho wns burled bur-led In a characteristic neolithic grave, with his neolithic pots nnd Instruments Instru-ments of flint nbout him. Thoro is of course, no Inscription of any kind on tho pots, knlvcs,.)r grave, all having hav-ing been mado long'.Veforfi tho Invention Inven-tion ot any writtto langirago." |