Show TELLS OF prehistoric IS TO RI C EGYPT lecturer at the british museum do da scribes face paint found in ancient graves 40 mr Iland cock has lust just delivered it A lecture on prehistoric egypt at the british museum tho the first of a course of four lectures loc turoa after a detailed discussion of the tha dynastic egyptians donahe oahe one hand and tho the prehistoric aborigines on the other in the course ot at which he ha showed a large number 0 of ivory slate bono bone and clay figurines recovered from early egyptian groves graves together with a number ot of skulls lie ho proceeded to examine some early ceremonial slate palettes palestes pa lettes which are illustrative of the fauna of the country at that period as well as of the artists skill these palettes palestes pa lettes were aued tor for toilet purposes the malachita which was used for face paint being ground upon them and it Is interesting to note that traces of paint aria are wit visible ou on some of them they are of further importance inasmuch as aa they illustrate pictorially the traditional conquest of the north by the south prior to the unification of all egypt under ono ona monarch the legendary mona alona ono one whose historical hi stort cal counterparts would appear to have been aha men the early egyptians wore were neolithic and the flints of workmanship are tho the finest wrought flints in tile the world but later on copper came unto use the semitic element anthe in the egyptian language proves conclusively that there was a semitic element clement in fit tho the blood 0 of the dynastic egyptians but this fact does not seem to have much bearing on the connection between the early egyptian and babylonian civilization as illustrated by the use usa of cylinder seals and similar shaped maco mace heads lu la both countries in the tha very oar earliest liest times for at the period in question the Su Sumer lans and not the tha semites in all probability tho the ruling facton in fit babylonian civilization elvi liza mr air handcock concluded his lecture with some remarks on oil the tha paintings on early egyptian pottery which showed that they knew how to build and navigate sailing balling boats as aa well as aa rowing boats from the earliest times |