Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-05-02
A Remarkable Discovery.

The remarkable discovery of Jewels
in the Pyramid at Dashour by Profess
sor Morgan has excited attention both
at Cairo, where the great "findn has
been deposited, and in Europe. We
know the apparel worn by the ancient
kings and princes of Egypt and we
have full records of the daily life of the
people. A multitude of mummies of
kings, princes and high officials has
been brought to life from the tombs
hidden in the hills, but in the greater
pyramids the tombs of the kings were
despoiled of their contents and the
ornaments they wore disappeared with
their bodies. In all the infinite re-
searches made by modern explorers
comparatively few Jewels were found,
and of these the greater part were I'm
important. The discovery made by
Professor Morgan in the southernmost
pyramid of the Nile series of those
structures has given us an accurate
knowledge of the jewels worn by roval
personages in Egypt five thousand
years ago.
A Cairo correspondent gives an ac.
count of the crowds that go to the
museum at Ghizeh to gaze on the won
derful collection of Jewels found by
Professor Morgan and deposited in the
two glass cases where they are exposed
| They far surpass in beauty all those
that had been withdrawn from other
tombs, and they are said to be of a
dazzling clearness, of workmanship
SO fine and OF taste so perfect as to be
unsurpassed by the verv best work OF
modern jewelers.. The glass case is di
vided into two parts. The first in.
closes the jewels of the Princess Hathor
Sat, of the twelfth dynasty, known as
the Theban dynasty, lasting for about
two hundred and thirteen years, and
during which most of the larger pyra-
mids were built along the Valley OF
the Nile as solitary tombs for the kings
of that dynasty. The minor pyramids
were for the tOmbs of other members
of the royal family. That at Dashour
however, contained the tomb of one OF
the kings-since discovered-as we'll as
those of the two princesses whose
jewels are now in the museum al
Ghizeh.
| In the first compartment of the glass
case, containing those of the Princess
| Hathor-Sat are many necklaces of gold
a necklace of amethysts, another a
superb necklace of emeralds mounted
in gold, one of them containing the
figure of a scarabeus. delicately cut and
of remarkable workmanship. Among
the smaller objects there are two
scarabei, also in amethysts, and third
cut in turquoise of great beauty.
| The second compartment incloses the
| jewels that once belonged to the Prin-
cess Sentsembet, also of the twelfth
dynasty. The last collection is still
more beautiful than the other 1t in
cludes scarabei of amethysts, necklaces
of gold, golden shells, with lotus flowers
in enamel, necklace of amethysts
with pendants formed of smaller stones
encased in circles of gold. Besides
these there is a beautiful necklace oil
carnelians and amethysts.
Professor Morgan found the tombs OF
both princesses empty. Other sar
cophagi in adjacent pyramids had also
been violated and robbed of whatever
| jewels there were in them. The jewels
found by him in the Dashour Pyramid
and now brought to light after lapse
of nearly five thousand years were dis
covered hidden in a wooden box buried
in the soil, and were probably intended
to be the spoil of the thieves who had
robbed the tombs of their contents, but
for some reason or other had been un
able to return and carry away the
richest part of their plumber Balti
more Sun.