The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-08-22
Egyptian Discoveries.

| DA' 4N0NAAIC, VIC UlSCOVcTcT OF bu
bastis and of the Treasure City O
Pithom, has just given to the worlt
the results of his work in identify
ing other cities and districts il
Egypt, more especially some con
nected with the Exodus of the Is
raelites; and at the end of the month
of June he presented these results
before one of the largest meetings
ever held by the Victoria (Philo
sophical) } Institute, of Adelphi Ter
race, London, the great hall in which
the meeting was held being SO
crowded that many had to be &C.
commodated in the vestibule. The
chair was taken on the occasion by
the president, Sir Gabriel Stokes,
Bart, past president of the Royal
Society, and the present occupant
of Sir Isaac Newton's Professional
Chair at Cambridge University.
The business of the evening was
commenced by Captain F. Petrie,
the honorary secretary, reading the
report, which showed that the In
stitute's members and associates in
the United States, England, India,
and in other parts of the world had
now risen to 400; number which
was being added to by the almost
daily applications to join. The
value of the transactions was shown
by the increasing number of Ian
guages into which foreign members
translated them, especially those
scientific papers showing the error
of those who argued that science
in any way contradicted the Bible.
Sir Joseph Fayrer, K. G. S. l., F.
r. S., moved and DR.. Moule, who
had just arrived from China, Sec
onded the first resolution, after
which DR.. Naville's address was
given. He illustrated his remarks
by referring to an elaborate map of
his surveys. He said he had found
that Succoth was not a city as some
had supposed, but district; from
a remarkably valuable inscription
discovered at Pithom, there was no
longer any doubt that it was that
Greek Heroopolis, from whence, as
Strabo, Pliny, Agathemeros, and Ar
described merchant ships
sailed to the Arabian Gulf. This
fact comedies with the results of
modern scientific surveys, which
showed that there had been a grad
ual rising of the land, and that the
Red Sea once extended up to the
walls of Pithom; this must have
been the case about 5000 years ago,
and Sir William Dawson and the
French engineer Linant held that
it went even further north. The
next place noted by M. Naville was
Baal Zephon, and in identifying this
he had been aided through some
recently discovered papyri, which
proved that it was not a village or
city, but an ancient shrine of Baal
and a noted place of pilgrimage. |
Other places were Migdol and Pi
and here again a papyrus
nad helped him, it seemed probable
hat the Jerapeum was the Egyptian |
Maktal of Migdol, and it was great
y to be regretted that bilingual
ablet discovered there a few years
lso had been destroyed before be-
ng deciphered. The bearing of his
dentifications were of no small in
crest to the students of history,
10Th sacred and other. Sir John
coode, K. c. S. l., who had surveyed
he canal for the British Govern
nent, moved a vote of thanks to
4. Naville, and the other authors
# papers read during the year,
lamely, Sir W. Dawson, F. R. S..
Professor Hall, F. R. s. Lord Grim
horpe, Mr.. Z. Pinches and Mr..
'oscawean, the Assyrioiogists Sur
eon-General Fordon, G. B., of In
ian fame, and others. A vote of
hanks to the president concluded
he proceedings. A Conversations
as then held in the museum
'ionear Isl. Paull Press.