Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-15
THE OBELISK KINGS.
Emil Brugsch Discovers the Mummies of
Thothmcs III. and Rameses II.

Emil Brugsch Discovers the dummies of
Thothmes III. and Rameses II.
A discovery of special interest to
Americans has just been made in Egypt
by. younger brother of the wellknown
Pr1ssian archeologist, Brugsch Pasha,
who represented Egypt at the Philadel-
phia Centennial in 1876. He has found
about four miles east of Thebes the
mummies, with all their mOrtuary ap-
pendages and descriptions, of no less
than thirty Royal personages. Among
the thirty Royal personages are those of
King Thothmes Ill. and of King
Rameses H., the first of whom ordered
the construction of the obelisk which
now stands in our Central Park, and the
latter of whom 270 years afterward
caused his own official titles and honors
to be inscribed upon its faces, beside
those of Thothmes LII. These two
monarchs now lie side by side in the
Boulak Museum, and even the flowers
and garlands which were placed in their
collins may to-day be seen encircling
the masks which cover the faces of the
deceased just as they were left by the
mourners over 5000 years ago.
Last June, Daoud Pasha, Governor of
the Province of Keneh, which includes
the ancient Theban district, noticed
that the Bedaween offered for sale an
unusual quantity of antiquities at alb
surdly low prices. The Pasha soon dis
covered that the source of their hidden
treasure was situated in gorge of the
mountain range which separates DER
el-Bahari from the Bab-el-Malook. This
gorge is situated about four miles from
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Pasha at once telegraphed to the Khe-
dive, who forthwith dispatched to the
spot Herr Emil Brugsch, a younger
brother OF DR.. Henry Brugsch Pasha,
who, during M. Maspero's absence in
Paris, is in charge of all archaeological
excavations in Egypt. Herr Brugsch
discovered in the cliffs of the Lypian
Mountains, near the Temple of Deir-el-
Bahari, or the "Northern Convent" a
pit about thirty five feet deep cut in the
solid rock. A secret opening from this
pit led to a gallery nearly 200 feet long,
also hewn out of the solid rock. This
gallery was filed with relics of the The
ban dynasties. Every indication leads
to the conviction that these sacred relics
had been removed from their appropri-
ate places in the various tombs and
temples and concealed in this secret
subterranean gallery by the Egyptian
priests to preserve them from being de-
stroyed by some foreign invader. In all
probability they were thus concealed at
the time of the invasion of Egypt by
Cambyses.
Herr Brngsch at once telegraphed for
a steamer, which on Friday last safely
deposited her precious cargo at the Bou-
lax Museum.
The full value of this discovery of
course can not as yet be determined.
The papyri have not yet been unrolled,
nor have the mummies been unwrapped.
The following Theban sovereigns are
the most important of those whose
mummies Herr Brugsch has identified
Aahmcs 1. (Amosis), first King of
Eighteenth Dynasty, reigned B. c. 100
(about).
Amenhotep 1. (Amenophis). second
King of Eighteenth Dynasty, reigned B.
C. 1866 (about).
Thothmes l., third King of Eighteenth
Dynasty, reigned B. c. 1888 (aboutl.