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Show iX Til lltltlth Muscuir haa recently come fM Intopoiieislonoln, uiummy which It "1& generally belelred by the oiorle, who JK , have been prlvlloged to examine it, II to be the moil ancient yet discovered. U Thl addition It ol unlquo value, In view & of thefacttbatltconroyaa more com j prehontlve Idea of the origin ol the an- I cleut r.ygptlaui than hut cut et been obtained fromtlmltar reiki. Upon thla point there hat alwayt been u wldudlt- frgeucoofoplnlonamongarthaooloKliti. The mammy wni taken from a neolithic grato. It li tho body of a man about I , J feet 8 liirlici In height. Upouthetcalp I ', it a remaining lock of liulr which tug A geitt that It wat orlganally of a fair col- 'V or. The hnndi and feel ara tmall, and ki from the Intellectual formation of lili '"ft head it it conceded that he limit have ftjiW belonged to a tuperlor race, Thereiult of EgyptoW"1 InveilUutloni dnlarei m$ that tho mummy It that of an aborigine m, " of Kygpt, which wat conquered by an jJ "f Ailatlc invailon about SOW 11. 0 and Hf, which altcrward Intermingled with tho fe ' conquering race, thui conitituttng tho WJ. foundation of the raco known at Kygp- 11 tlani. Tlio gravo Irom whl.h tho body Kip -vai taken out wat au oval cavity in a jfL I anditonorock.andcoveredwllh a num MR w , Urol largo alaba ol ilonc. Hanged Hjf ' round the body were the uiuildlntt and MK " earthtrnwaro pottery, It wai found Hmj t lmponlble to remove tho gravo of the Rftl, ' body together with the mummy, ao an Mi , exact replica ol the tomb v ai made, and HE the body bow reHiiet In a cnio In the JPJ Eygpltan galloty of the muieum In W$jM exactly the nine poiltlnn in which It " wni found. Sclentldo American. |