The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-23
A NEW RACE OF PEOPLE,
x,,,nNT. OF WHOM Tile WE"
ANc,I EVER HEARD OF BEFo"%'
..s u,y. Discovered the n."'pI "x
Es?'":.ss,, rn"gs rrchistoric Na .,,"i. and
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4 new race in Egypt in the lo''s "s
,n1 .,mos, at the very dawn OF his'or!
10 fine surprising discovery tha' mas
inst been made by band OF European
sc;ontists who have been exploring any.
cxcayating in the southern part Vi 'n'
,nciont country. OF what type OF SUI
t;on Of the human family this race w''
b, mart has not yet been setl'eo' ~.
This much at least is certain .na'
these people must have been esSen ..,,
" non Egyptian, for theif po.. .;aI
,h,;r statuetts, their mode of buria''
their beads and even themselves .om 40
can he plainly deduced, were 'V ,h;s
nlctely different. The honors V, ,h;nh
discovery, the particulars Oh mn dna
have only just come to LONDON, a.. a. os
70 two gentlemen of that recent. nc
tablished English institution KNOW M as
the Egyptian Research Account pa.s;n
0uibcli and w. NJ. Flinders te.rfo,
Who have been constantly in Alric" 'o'
81 1rbey have not only explored and ex *
humed, but they have summaries ii,,,'a
their data and made careiui 1oua
lions so that the value OF the dlsco ~
cry Is already apparent BY cafelul
stndv of dates and other comparisons
thew have proved fairly conclusiSelyi,
th.t This new-or old race llved anu
had mower between the seventh anu
ninth dynasties of Royal Egypt vi
about 5000 b. {. o,od
Over 1000 graves have been opened,
and hundreds of skulls and skeletons
nave been collected, and WIN SIoa'
mass Of implements and relics ha.'.
raaIy for shipment to England. ie'
ia an these tombs and excavations
there has not been found single arti
.lo that bore the marks of Egyptian
c;vilization in the slightest degree o'
Il solitary mummy. ,oI,, i.
That these people were not mercy e;,; !
local variety or even proVlnciai Wv, ~
sion of the Egyptians is certain IRON
tbn fact that remains OF them "er'
sound over stretch of more thah
bundled miles of country, from Ap!uo'
tn Grbelen. Side by side with I'M
novel relics and strange bodies nave
been found Egyptian tombs, Esyptial
pottery and ruins of Egyptian towns .
the fourth. twelfth, eighteenth hn'
nineteenth dynasties Of Egypt AS IN
explorers have recorded III tne ill.'io
rial they have presented, The STRAIT
~ Egyntian civilization was therefor
, uniform over the whole country. I'M
neylv discovered race must have pee
, a tribe of invaders settling IN TINS see
. tion of southern Egypt between IN
days of the seventh and ninth dyhas
e ties.
: The carvings and the bodies ina
: have been exhumed show that ines
nav people must have been herce an
! nowerfui folk. with strong features
. hooked noses. long pointed Boards an
u brown wayv hair Settling a poiT
; MAT might otherwise be disputed, the
: shnw no trace whatsoever of the negi
;, tvne In general contour OF featnl
- and form they have strange resc!'
Il hlanre TO the Libyan and Amori
= races. and the strong probability
y ~ thny came on from the west !
10 ".av If the western and great case
~ ~ ms fact is strengthened by the HI
! t,'r;c certainty that during the seven
: and eighth Egyptian dynasties U
I'd seat of Egypt was Memphis ana :,
NJ people had thrust themselves up
al Nile valley. A., :,
l,r,wn race are made known from |
n. detail and arrangement OF the polll
he that have been examined. III y
q. these graves resemble those III .ne :
Gle at Mycenae. They are square op
..l ,,,T
ways by preference in shoals OF wa
4 couses, they show that this race ca
from rocky country, where eNua'
u! ton was impossible, except III anu
Vi UNI. hmm, ,,,,
lis The bodies in the tombs have gr'
IN development in legs, thus polntihe
the former stronghold of these PEG
ea having been hill country ana not
no coast region. Forked hunting IAN
'ni predominatc among the instrume
an that time has left, proving their ma
ms of chasing the gazelle.
.h1 They are Canibals.
Ieu In the graves the bodies lay contra
90 ed and not mummiiied, always
~; m the head to the south and the face
~ ~, bn wnst The evidence is not lack
~ that the bodies were generally N,
~ lated before they were buried, ana
scu ,ot moro startling characteristic
, LIZ conveyed from the fact that seems
~, he nroyen that these people "
IT. lie anthropophagists, that is, cannibals
io In one large and important To
four skulls were found placed betw
w stone vases on the floor, sepal
nn bean of loose bones of several BOO
pa together. and but little dista
i, away bones broken open at the e
'et h and scooped out. All of these
ny distipctively human bones. 1t
WI not need an expert in ethnology
WA ;udoe this to be cannibalism pure
simple. - .,o,o
,snovns must have been of importal
for even when set side by side IN c
81. harrison with the Egyptians, their W.
~ manship shows forth as little short
remarkable. With both metals
flint they were experts. In flint e
cially they must have been possesse
wonierful skill, for flint articles
been found magniticently worked,
more exquisitely and with greater,
cree of elaboration than that empl
by the Egyptians in any age.
are in the Ashmolean and the
Rivers museums at Oxford sple
examples of flint workmanship
,rd. have been believed for years tc
Egytian. 1t is now absolutely pre-
= the discoverers say, that these
products of this unknown race
lie on s.,.us of their work.
a n d n, 81 :, tho =,
merit Copper neeules iouho III INV
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