The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-13
rmE ANTIQUITIES OF EeYPr.
.seeent wonderful Di'eoveries

HeEC0Mt
From the London Times.
The details which our Cairo correspondent
furnishes US this morning OF the eX .raordlnary
discovery of ROYAL Tuunmies and paPyri in
tae cllIia OF the ThebAis add to the wonder his
first account excited. No archaeological de-
posi.s on the same scale have been
disinterred since Sir Henry Laysrd re-
yealed the glorles of Niasveh, In mere
quantity the antiquities thus suddenly
BROUGHT u light uust awaken Sd-
miration even In an age which within
the compass Of single lifetime has uncovered
moro material relics o. the Ourle past 1asn
thoasand years which preceded IL. The pres.
eat generate "a, WbAleVtr IT Msy have created
or fail d to create for tue instruction Of the
future, has teen singuiarly industrious anu
successful In ga herring icgether the fragments
OF ita remote ancestors. Feom Signor Beihoni
TO Nj. MarIstte au unhroken line OF explorers
have been compiling the iepulohral register
OF Egyptian grsnd.un NineVeh ana
skill and intuition Of sir Horny Lay
ard ana the indefatiy gable courage and unself-
ishness of Mr.. Rassam, resumed. their
place In the annals OF AN =. an pr gress' From
the Iyclopean fottresses D, the aboriginal
Peia9gl 10 the monument OF OlymplAo VIC
tors, IL cllenic art has been persuaded oy Herr
Schliemsun, dr, Newton, MIR. VOID, Gsnerai
CesnoA anu host of other Investigators to
reader up its mysteries OF grace ana hsrhony
A neF world OF sentiment has been opened
no in Ktruria. Ancient Rome In year
W year putting of Its grsve-clothes
Dssoiate heaths blue lakes aud
rugged cAyerns are continually being
made 10 supply gaps TN the social, spiritual
and natural history Of mAu. Inquirers In
quiro no longer at random. An outline map
is now drawn OF the vast field which msn has
occupied. Much has been filled In; how mucn
remains TO I'LL In is known; Researches are
pursued on n plan, Though thOutauds Of Nile
of geographical space and more thousands OF
Year, separate their several areas. The ad
vances OF santqntrianism In these .sttei NdaSs
are rs muoh faster than in those OF Geoflreg,
Of Moninouth, ~ the cslculaslons secom'
plished by the rules of arithmetic are quick
er ana moro accursie than IL affected by the
fingers.
Historical science presides over the inyesti-
cations wherever they are conducted IL di-
Ieots.yhtro to look and for what, and how
each article or particle unearihed may be
turned ints n clew to more which will ih time
em0rge. A Beethoven could weave an en-
chsutlng harmony amid the Joliing or post
ch..se A Leverrier could, without mountin z
the siairs of hisObscrvsIory, perceive how an
knowh planet, or predict comet. III the ssrue
way the phtlosOpherof COM erpttvs history,
sitting la his professional chair, divides tho
distances Still to ue travers ed u ils stAgas. which
the workers are t. work out for his edin-
cation. Ieteach Of theso delivers ana digg SIS
in the mine of bygone gges Iabors and
almJsr necessarily lab0rs, as if the claim al
lott.d to him contained all that masBind
could care to learn The vast region OF history
IA built 40 of as many distlact sections as the
region OF geology. Each pioneer IS heiUnnels
In hia appOrtiohed ground may hear, now aud
again, faint echo a. IRON mis- own axe from
another excavatiO N with Woicn be has no con-
Germ, lie may sometimes. like Cornish min
ers, in the pauses Of his toll be conscious of
the roar OF the universal ocean OF human his
tory Ms he approaches the interval befcre his
III a. a..
the vein he Is working tab es . different direc-
ton; he loses the noise of the spade Of his co.
temporary explorer; the dsshing of the waves
above sounds lemoter; he IL In solitude and
silence once more, except so far AS he Is him
self peopling the one and rendering the other
articulate This Is the strangenees OF the sue
cessive or overlapping strata OF the huge
breadths OF Antiquity. Every enc In turn
seems to Its studeat, whether he shoulder tho
maltock or only con the results TO occupy the
entire world. to be sole ruler and owner.
Assyris, whether imperso nated In the palaces
of Nineveh or Babylon, assumes, and
to his students makes the as
timeiise In fee. To the Psychologist there
is nothing but Egypt to the fnrthest bounds
of the horizon Though the ceninrles
OF Assyrlsn dominion are little beside the H.
limitabie ages arrogated for the mental SUI
premacy of Egypt. for 3 part OF the sphere
which the one covers the other Ia seen In pos
session, too. Yet each on Its own territory Is
not merely sovereign, but exclusively sover
eign. Though both coexis,sd and both
reigned, no room for more than one Is visible
to the students OF either. The heroes and con-
trail figures of these yelled spleodora were not
Themselves without a fear, as the character OF
their memorials testlfes, that their fame and
names might be forgotten In the lapse Of cen
turies. Assyrian conqnero,s inscribed their
titles on v0ndrous brOnzed g,tes and
tculptured marble. Long lines of Pha
rsons raised their glorifed cairns of
nrnnn nv
ploits IN cll0ra 81 indeli6e, and so transmu-
ted their very flesh. that neither the mud OF
the Nile, the sands OF the desert nor the rava-
ges of insect existence have been able to sub
due this height and soidity, this perennial
brightness and oiearness, this condensation
of Immortal essences. Assyrian and Egyp-
tain monarchsapent the best pal of their lives
In preparing against tn obscurity thoy apprs-
hended for themselves after death. But th> ir
dread never coDjured up the vision day
when this AsJyrian empire would be represent
ted by a few scattered dust heaps, and the
klngdoml by, the curlosities OF Christian
and Turkish museums. They reck;
endured. They looked forward Into the dim
distances of uncounted other ages to follow.
It seemed to them that they must grave their
names and deeds very deep for them MT 70
fade away and be lost in the vista of innu-
merable generations and dynastles like leaves
lying hesped on leaves in an untrodden wood.
The thirty Phsraohs or wives and children of
Pharaohs. recovered from Deir-el -Balhari
We're determined TO preserve their Identity
among tbs other Pharaoahs and queens and
children of Pasraohs that they forssaw
destined to reign over the Nils to the end
OF time. The nineteenth century owes
Its wealth OF Egyptian, as Of Assyrian
remains TO the longing Of their original
s sSRSrs s to aa5 i Of se%ss b,ssusS foot
erelgns of Egypt and Assyria. it doss not
owe its good fortune to any mistrust In them
That strsnger8 from aiar might come aud carry
on their bodies and their emblematlc lions
and eagles to their treasure houses with,
out knDwing whose they were and whom they
COMMUNICATED. II they dreaded any enemy
besides tue competing series OF later native
lords, IL WAS the slime of the Nile or The dust
Otthe great plains of Asia that thsy had In
Vheir thoughts as they quarried and carved
and painted.
As the abundance and ma iflcentsor thisro-
cant addition TO the riches OF EgypIology be.
came mors msnifest, o regret will ,ntrude
That no equal prize has rewarded the IIellehic
of Rome explorer. The artistic disco yeries at
Halicarnassus, at Ephesus,at olympus, and
elsewhere IN Gre ,"9 and Asia Minor, those at
ustia, In the 'um, at PUmsell, and az
Herculaneum nrV of an importance which
can not bs over.estimatOd. They oxceec In
artistic value the discoveries ut EgyD.a'n
Thebes. The Egyptian antiquities, however
have more than artistlo value. They ex-
pose the course and features OF Egyptian
life and thoughts as WILDLY as they could have
been displayed by art and literature 10 nm
Client Egyptians themselves 40 far a. ancient
Egypt had literature 1t probably Is fully and
perfectly exempltsd In tho relics 30 bOunti.
fully distributed among European museums,
For the lecls Il history, for the actual con-
clusions even the spiritual observations OF
the mlui, no rec lrds could be more satIsfyiur
than those the Pharaohs have bequsathed 10
the moiern world In them the modern inte'-