Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-10-08
The Monarch Mummies of Egypt.

In June last was mndo known the dis.
covory of n large collection of antiquities
nonr the temple Of DER. I'ahnii, in
Egypt, noar the river Milo, and in the
vicinity of the ruins of Thcbos, which is of
incstimnbc value TO the students Of Archm-
ology, Egyptology, and ancient history.
The mummies of ten kings and two queens
were found, and also several thousand
objects of different kinds, and, what is of
more value in throwing light on the past,
four papyri in perfect state Of pressrva.
ton. Much valuable information is OK.
pccted from these latter and their dcci.
phcring is looked forward to with interest.
The following correspondence concerning
this collection wo copy from the New York
Nation Of August 18th:
CAIRO, EGYPr, July 90, 1881.
A discovery has just been made in|
Egypt which, besides being of the highest
archaeological value, cannot fail to arouse
special interest in America. The obelsk|
which now stands in Central Park was
hewn from the granite quarries at Assnam,
in Upper Egypt and erected at Heliopolis,
the City of On of the Bible, by order of
King 1hothnes H., the fifth King of the
The central columns of hieroglyphics of
each of the four faces of the obelisk set
forth tho titles and honors of ThothmesI
Ill, whom DR.. Brugsch Pasha has design
ated ms the Alexander the Great of Phara.I
onic history. Two hundred and seventy
years later o. c. 1889, King Ramses III. l
surnamed Ramses the Great (tho Sesostris|
of the Greeks), ordered that his own titles
aud honors BIO incribed upon the obelisk J
The two outside columns of each of the;
four faces of the Central Park obeisk are|
composed of the hieroglyphics of Ramses|
the Great. Three thousand years later
that is to say, in the month of July, A. d.
lSSl--the mortal remains of these two;
mouarchs were discovered in an almost!
perfect state of preservation in n cave cut
in the solid rock near Thebes, where, to-
gethcr with the mummies Of thirty otherl
roynl pcrsouages, they had been concealed;
b5 the Egyptian priests during those;
stormy days when Cnmbyses and his Per-
slams overran Egypt and mutilated herI
buCTeu
Last June Daoud Pasha, Governor of
tho Mudirich of Kench, noticed that theI
Bedawcen brought in an usually large
quantity of relics, which they offered forI
sale at unusually low prices. This aroused
suspicion, and by means Of rewards and
threats of corporal punishment the Pasha|
found out that what seemed to be An mex
haustible store of antiquities existed in
cave in tho mountains near the temple OF
Deirel- Bahari, about four miles from the
Nile to tue east of Thebes. Daoud Pnsha
at once tcegraphed the fact to Cairo, and
the Khedive directed Herr Emil Brugsch,
younger brother of DR.. Brugsch Pasha
(who during the absence of NJ. Maspero,
was in charge of the Boulak Museum), to
proceed at once to Deir.cl. Bahari and in
vestigate the matter. The result is that
day before yesterday Herr Brugsch re.
turned from his mission and safely landed
in Cairo a steamboat full of the most pre-
cious relics of tho Thoban dynasties. The
following list of the principal objects OF
this " find" cannot fail to BIO of interest:
NtmM,rs eY soyrRFIdNs, WITH THEIR WOODEN cor
FIN CASES, JEWELS, cANorIo JARS, Eror INTACT
Approximate