Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-10-10

y new race i'll Egypt in the long
ago and almost at the very dawn OF
history is the surprising discovery that
has just been made by a band Of Eu-
ropean scientists who have been en-
ploring and eXcavating in the south
crn part of That country. OF what
type or section of the human family
this race was Il part has not yet been
settled but this much at least is GER
tain: that these people must have been
essentially non-Egyptian, for their pot
terry. their statucttcs. their mode of
burial, their beads, and even them
selves, as can be plainly deduced. We're
completely different. The honorS of
this discovery, the particulars of
which have only just come to London.
are due to two gentlemen of that re-
Gently established English institution
known as the Egyptian Research Ac-
cOunt-a Mr.. Quibell and W. NJ. Film
ders Pctrie. who have been constantly
in Africa for six months past.
! They have not only explored and
! eNhumcd. but they have summarized
their data and made careful deduc-
toms 40 that the value of the dis
! covcry is already apparent. BY Il
careful study Of dates and other com
PARSONS they have proved, fairly con-
cluSivey. that this neW-or o.d-race
lived and had power between the sew
+ |, /,
Egypt, or about 5000 T. G..
! over 1000 graves have been opened,
and hundreds Of skulls and skeletons
= have been collected, ana with great
mass of implements and relics made
/ ready for shipment to England. Yet
! in all these t0mbS and excavations
there has not been found single ar
/ ticlc that bore the marks of Egyptian
/ civilization in the slightest degree, or
Il solitary mummy.
That these people were not merely
local variety or even Il provincial
division of the Egyptians is certain
from the fact that remains of them
were found over a stretch of more
than Il hundred miles of country, from
/ Abydos to Gebelcn. Side by side with
the novel relics ana strange bodies
have been found Egyptian tombS,
/ Egyptian pottery, ana ruins of lIgyp-
tian towns of the fourth twelfth,
eighteenth. and nineteenth dynaStiCH
Of Egypt. AS the explorers have re-
corded in the memorial they have
presented, "The strata Of Egyptian
civilization was therefore uniform over
the whole country" This newly dis
covered race must have been IA tribe
Of invaders settling in this section CT
southern Egypt between the days of
the seventh ana ninth dynaStics.
The carvings and the bodies that
have been eXhumed show that these
new people must have been a fierce
and powerful folk. with strong fea-
lures, hooked noses, long pointed
boards, and brown, wavy hair. Set
ding Il point tnat otherwise might
be disputed, they show no trace what
socver of the negro type. In general
contour of feature and form they have
a strange resemblance to the Lyhian
and Amorite races, and the strong
probability is that they came on from
the west by way of the western and
great oaSeS. This fact is strength
ened by the historic certainty that dur
ing the seventh and eighth Egyptian
dynaStieS the seat of Egypt was Mem
phis, and no people had thrust them
selves up the Nile valley. Curious
characteristics of the unknown race
are made known from the detail and
arrangement of the tombS that have
been examined. In type these graves
resemble those in the circle at My
cenae. They are square open pits,
rooted with beams of wood. Always
by preference in shoals Of water
courses, they show that this race came
from a rocky country, where eXcava-
ton was impossible, except in allu-
vium. The bodies in the tombS have
Il great development in legs, this point
ing to the former stronghold of these
people having been hill country and
not a coast region. Forked hunting
lanccS predominant among the nStru-
mcnts that time has left, proving their
habit of chasing the gaZelle.
In the graves the bodies lay CON
tracted and not mummtied always
with the head to the south and the
face TO the west. The evidence is not
lacking that the bodies were generally
mutilated before they were buried,
and a yet more startling characterlS
tic is conveyed from the fact that
seems to be proven that these people
We're anthropophagistS, that is, can
nihaS. In one large and important
tomb four skulls were found placed
between stone vases on the floor, a
separate heap of loose bones of -Sey
eral bodies together. and but little
distance away bones broken open a
the ends and scouped out. All of these
We're distinctively human bones. 1t
does not need an expert in ethnology
to judge this to be cannihalsm pure
!