Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-10
DISCOVERIES IN EGYPT.
REMARKABLE SUCCESS OF INvESTI-
CATIONS BY NAvILLE.
Their Value as Against Those VINO At
tack the Bible in the Name
of Science.

The two large July gatherings held in
London, England, by the Victoria Institute
are considered to have been of much i'm
portance The President, Sir G. G. Stokes,
Bart, President of the Royal Society, took
the chair at both. and on each occasion the
members crowded the large hall engaged
to the doors. At the first meeting, Pro-
fessor Sayce's account of his examination
of the library brought by Amenophis III.
from Assyria to Egypt thirty-four Gen.
turtles ago, was given. The Lord Chan
cellor delivered an eloquent speech on the
occasion, and NJ. Naville, the discoverer of
Succoth- Pithom, Bubastis, and other places
of great historical Importance in Egypt,
characterized the discovery described by
ProfessorSayceaso one of the most important,
and perhaps really the most important,
Of this century; and the Victoria Institutes
members were not slow in recognizing the
value of their fellow-member's work. At
the second meeting, the members assem-
bled to welcome NJ. Naville on his arrival
in England after his discovery of the site
of Eubastis, and his exploration thereof.
The business of this meeting was COM
| menced by the election, as members, of
several who had applied to join the Insti-
tute as supporters, including His Excel
| ency Count Bernstorfi, and several Austria
liam and American associates, after which
NJ. Naville himself described his own dis
coyeries at Bubastis, for the first time in
England-his last visit to England having
been previous to those discoveries. The
Society of Arts having most kindly placed
| their apparatus at the disposal of the
Victoria Institute, he showed, by lime
! light, the photographs ne had made on the
spot.
NJ. Nayille commenced by quoting the
| prophecy of Ezekiel against Egypt, be-
| cause it contained the names of the lead
ing buried cities, the recovery of the re-
cords of which he is SO DESTROYS to obtain
and here we may be permitted to digress
| for a moment to call attention to the fact
that the authoress of the last published
work in regard to the East declares that
| this prophecy had not been fulfilled ac-
| cording to the prophets words. Strange
tan explorer of modern times should go
to this very prophecy for light to enable
him to find that which others had failed to
| discover! Taking the last city named, he
| described how he found Pibsseth- Bubastis,
how each days excavating work brought
| him new relics, new inscriptions how he
| found Rameses H., in the nineteeth dy-
nasty, had, as usual, blotted out the names
| of previous Pharaohs, and put his own
name on everything, even on the statue of
| Pharaoh of the fourth dynasty; and
now, by careful comparison, aided by the
| fact that Rameses Ii. had not been quite
thorough in his appropriation, he had dis
covered which Pharaoh of the fourth dy-
nasty the statue represented
He came to the conclusion that Bubas-
It's was founded at least as early as in the
reign of Cheops, between whom and Pepi,
OF whose influence there were traces, 500
years interviewed, 500 years after there
was transformation of the city in the
18th dynasty; in the 18th dynasty there
was the invasion of the Hyksos or Shep-
herds, who from the statues Of great beauty
| found, and from other evidences, must
J have been highly-cultivated people, who,
he considered, must have come from Meso-
potamia. DR.. Virchow considered that
| their monuments represented Turanians,
and Professor Flower considered them to
represent people of Turanian or Mongo-
loid type, but that did not mean that the
population itself was Turanian. Their
worship and language was of Semitic
| type, but the statues of their kings
showed that they were not Semites NJ
Nayille added: at was then what it is
still now; and / believe that the conquest
Of Egypt by the Hyksos is not unlike
what would happen at the present day if
the population of Mesopotamia overran
the valley of the Nile; you would have
masses, in great majority of Semitic race,
speaking Semitic language, having
Semitic religion, and being under the
command of Turks, who are not Semites
but Turanians"
NJ. Naville, having referred to the head
of Hyksos King, which he had sent to
the British Museum, added that he had
found two statues of Apepi, the Pharaoh
of Joseph, and inscriptions in regard to
the Pharaoh of the Exodus, and many
others of high interest. But it would be
impossible to refer to the mine of interest
ing matter in this paper, and we can only
congratulate the members of the Victoria
Institute on possessing it; it is certainly
worth the whole years subscription to
possess this one paper. NJ Nayille, in
concluding, said: 81 cannot dwell at great
length here on the events of the Exodus,
yet should like to mention that the sue
cessive discoveries made in the Delta have
had the result OF making the sacred narra-
tive more comprehensive in many points,
and in one especially in showing that the
distances were much shorter than was gem
orally thought / consider, for instance,
1t important to have established that Bu-
bastis was very large city, and favor
lite resort of the King and his family. 1t
is quite possible thatSat the time when the
events preceding the Exodus took place,
the King was at Bubastis, not at Tanis, as
we generally believed"
| Sir George Stokes, Bart, having con-
veyed the thanks of the members to NJ.
Naville, a short discussion took place, dur
| ing which Captain Francis Petrie, the
Honorary Secretary, pointed out that what
Professor Sayce's paper had done as re-
CARDS Assyrian and Babyloniau history, NJ.
Naville's had done as regards Egyptian
history. They were papers advancing the
| practical work Of the Institute in investi-
| eating philosophical and scientific ques-
| tons, especially any questions used by
those who unhappily sought to attack the
| Bible in the name of Science; and both
would appear in the Journal, which would
be presented at the Institutes rooms, Ia,
Adelphi Terrace, to all members and asso-
| ciates who were now on the list, or who
might apply to join after the 10th of July.
a Suspicious Case.
"Say! Pm stuck on a little matterr' he
hriSklv observed as he e,ntnrnh n AI;nl,i,-n.,