Show pharaohs Phara also had refugees solved problem with slavery CHICAGO ancient egypt no less than the world today had a refugee problem prof harold H nelson of the university of chica gos oriental institute has discovered professor nelson field director of the epigraphic and architect architectural survey of the institute made this disclosure on his return from egypt where he has been directing work of deciphering records on the walls of the temples a and nd palaces of rameses III at luxor lexor the ancient egyptians were faced with a refugee problem when peoples of neighboring countries were werd dispossessed by invading barbarians and attempted to overrun egypt these refugees were made slaves dictators held sway it is interesting to note historically said professor nelson that these ancient governments we are studying were dictatorships though not of the totalitarian types of germany and italy in conflicts among the ancient states people of less de developed ve loped countries usually moved in on more developed countries professor nelson pointed out today the trend is for highly developed industrialized countries to seek to move in on less developed countries and exploit their resources the motives however of the old and new dictators it seems were the same said professor nelson they sought and seek plunder to better their own conditions to take over the good things the other countries have propagandists were active professor nelson revealed that in the old days 1500 B C the same type of political propaganda practiced today was known and used no record tor for example was publicized of defeats and mistakes were carefully concealed rameses once admitted his army was defeated but said that he personally turned the tide commented professor nelson we have found records of 0 the other side and the same event takes on a new appearance pe arance rameses took a licking the refugee problem of the ancients differed in another important respect from the situation today then there was no con conflict filet of political ideology as exists in spain there was no public sentiment on the subject people were merely driven out of their countries by invaders and superior numbers had more weight than today when mechanical ch anical advantage looms so much more important refugee problems created pop populations ions also were deliberately shifted and a refugee problem created in ancient countries also alao to break the national power of rival a tates states the As syrians practiced this in the eighth and seventh centuries B C other nations notably the romans shifted populations for a double purpose to reward or pension soldiers and at the same time garrison strategic border areas this practice was carried on virtually up to the world war as evidenced by the turks shift of circa salans to defend the desert frontier against attacking arab tribes professor nelson revealed that the inscriptions on the walls of the ruins at luxor lexor when transcribed and annotated will fill seven huge volumes 01 ol four of these volumes are completed |