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Show DISCOVERIES IN EGYPJ. (From the Xew York Times.) London. Flinders Petrie Edwards, professor of Egyptology at University College, made some revelations reve-lations of the recent work of the British School of Egyptology in Egypt in a lecture at the college. A most important find near Thebes, he said, was an untouched tomb of the seventeenth dynasty, about 1800 B. C. the simple furniture of which was very remarkable. Among the objects were a number of vases with a strong network of most remarkable re-markable fineness by which they were attached to a carrying pole like a milkman's yoke. String bangs of wonderful workmanship were also found, and a chair of pretty design with a knotted seat. The tomb in which the mummy was found was evidently that of some person, of importance, for a gold necklace, neck-lace, gold bangles and a girdle of curious Nubian pattern were found. There was also found a small private temple built by a high priest named Ne-bunnef. Ne-bunnef. who associated himself with Rameses II. At Memphis the work was directed' to the exploration ex-ploration of a large mound over sixty feet in height, and which will take many years to dig out. At a depth of about ten feet the remains of a large odifice about 400 feet long by 200 feet broad, with massive walls fifteen feet high was discovered. It proved to be the palace of Apiries, or the Pharoah Hophra of the Bible, 590 B. C, who is mentioned by Jeremiah. It was a large edifice, consisting of many halls and rooms, and two very large quadrangles, quadran-gles, as well as servants' quarters, and in the latter irpr tVif firpnlflcrKj and nvpna for cookim? t.bfi rovnl meals. The central hall was' a large space about 100 feet square, which had been covered by a cedar wood roof, supported on columns fifty feet high. Another find was a large gateway, built of older material of the twelfth dynasty, the walls of which bore a series of interesting sculptures representing the installation of the crown prince as vice rulen During the excavation of the palace very large quantities of scale armor were found, much of it of very fine work in steel, iron and bronze, probably borne by the Greek mercenaries of " the king and which had been hastily thrown away. |