, 1874-06-14
EGYPT ECAVATED,

: More than twenty years ago, Bayard Ta1lG,
riding On donkey back near the PJfaulids, hs.d
| strange stories from his attendanta OF Fraos
who had hired somo Of their fellows to dig fos
golden chickens in the desert. Arrived 1t tia
site Of ancient Memphis, he found the Frank
Auguste Marietta. He was e1huming tie aacisns
city. Since then he has worked steadily, l.
though hampered BY Governmentopposi:ion and
by lack OF money. Better days hsve come non.
The Khedive has created him Marietta 2ey ID.
rector Of the Department for the preserEationo Of
the Antiquities OF Egypt, " and has made an s1-
nua1 grant sufficient to carry on tho york. B2I.
ard Taylor, re7isiting Egypt, has revisited u
Mariette, and has written Of him and L;s mrsea7
to the New York Tribune.
The Khedi7e has wisely founded musenn
Boolak, in which all the spoils Of the pick and
spade are gathered, instead OF bains scas:erd
piecemea1 over Europe The things dis:osasa
heretofore have been those nearest tho ground
They have therefore becn Of the later dynasEa
Marietto Bey has struck the ancient layer. Ta
antiques he has found show that Egyptian Al
and culture. and religion we're at their p.iaa
ALSO years before the coming Of Christ: 1h
first historic King, Menes, was not barba.isa
but one Of long line Of highlJ-tra:nel soE
ereigns. The forty centuries that looked dow
from the Pyramids upon Napoeon's army h"
yielded their secrets. Mariotte ranks By Char
pollon as an Egyptian explorer. He has chow
that tho chronology OF Manetho, priest Tlo
lived under the Ptolemies in the ea1ly part oi
the third centuryB. c., il at least approximately
correct It has hitherto been sneered at BY
scholars
The museum at Boolak begins With statues OF
the th.rd and fourth dyuasties. The first ter
dynasties, according to uanetho, stretched from
5004 to 30G1 B. C. These early statues arc OF
carved wood or painted Limestone. The rgd!t1
that marks Egyptian art in general does not ap
pear in these beautiful forns. They have noi
oven the angular stiffness Of Byzantine a1t
"The figures stand or sit, but you feel thai
slight effort would ennblo them to rise or 'Fslk."
OF one statue Of sycamore wood, fee:
inches high, Mr. Taylor eays: "The face is 70
markably intelligent, cheerful, and bene7olept-~
a shakBperean head, cne might say, it g1Ts'
such evidence Of large, rich, aud attractive ~
ture." The eyes are marvels Of cunning VOTE
nsuship. They are inlaid. "Tho lashes Af
hin rims of bronze; the whites are formed OF
white opaque quartz, the iris OF rock crystsl;
md in the centre of each is set small crsstA
Eith many facets, which from every aida reaecsa
keen point OF light, like that In tho human
ye." The effect ia sometimes that Of perfecs
ife. "The statue is probably 6,000 years o'o'
hua ante-dating by $500 yea1s all other relics
t art which are in any way WORTHY Of be''s
laced beside it." These heads Of carl7 times
re- Aryan. They ropreeent gent'o:nen Luz
olors are as brilliant AZ On tue first dac. Cl1oh"
nd sand-covering have prevented al decay. IL
[ariette found, in the thin Layer OF dass
q the floor Of the sepulchre OF aa117a
nil. the footprints Of the men who Fsced 'n'
lummY there 3,70o years agol Besides IN eao'
ss line Of statues, The museum ia rich ID III
aunar OF household goods. It sho1s the hon"
te Of Egypt from 5000 b. @. d the Museum o.
sples shows that Of Pompeii in 7o L. D. IL
,utaina sculptured alab like the famous
osetta stone Of Champollion, which has np''
the same inscription in Greek hierog15pnl'
ID Demotic characters. It has souss records !"
q captivity Of the JewB. They &fo scantT c:'
al II to be sxpsotsd Ths oonqusfoss foa'u