The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-21
1eHr ON EARLY MAN
.ose.S,s RECENT DISCOVERY '.sooy
e aoHoI EXPLORING IN EGYPT.

~,,,ologIst Says the Found
20 '' :. worlds Civilization Were
.s . .. ~ - n. Comment of Professor
''' u.upt on This Theory
famous Egyptologist' Professor
lbe , ,a who stands at the head
90 %'Dtiouarians of the whole world
recently 1ly, m'p' Egypt ssgl which prove the
p'ds ,srs not only of Egyptian civiliza-
IOunu'I. also of the civilization OF the
tion, Ou %o r were Chinese. His aston
whole Woo ST;scoyeries show that the Chi
isblns u the first civilized race to IN
habit ~ Tdsn was in China, and that Ad-
a asl an. N Eve were Chinese
s% aDJ 40 Morgan has been for many
n. INJECTOR IT, general of antiquities Of
Y! yssi Eevptian government. de claims In
ine 10 ,ssat work, which has just now
his. .ls t brought out in Paris, "Recherches
peen 10, go origines de pEgypte, rAge dc
SUI p s.S ct les Metaux" ("Researches
1 u IN, the Origin of Egypt-the Age OF
s INV "a and Metal"), that the boosted
0 ;S;l;yation of Egypt comes by way CT
, ,'srria from central China, and proves
AZ. as' the origin of our civilization really
'u u''os from the Chinese, and not from
H sssvria and Egypt, as has been gener-
anr held heretofore by scholars.
'D Rut NJ. de Morgan says in all Africa
- ind the fliuts and the iron imple-
m J" but where are the bronze inple-
aents which are found in other conti-
n n,s Every antiquarian knows that
~ no race save the African, has gone di-
,sctlv from flint to iron. The age OF
bronze is a necessary connecting link.
But this link is missing.
Where is the missing link? M. de
Morgan cannot find it short OF China.
There was the regular advance from
stone TO bronze, from bronze to iron,
and hence he concludes that this is one
Oroof that the art of working metals
came FROM China to Assyria, from AS
,yria to Egypt, when some Assyrian
tribe conquered the original inhabitants
and brought its arts with it, but he has
still other proofs. lie finds that the
hieroglyphics of Egypt are very much
like the earliest form Of writing among
he Assyrians.
Another proof that the pharaohs were
II a foreign race is the fact that not a
Jingle trace of the art of the pharaohs
has been found in the archaic tombs.
Commencing On the theory OF M. dc
Morgan, Paul Haupt, professor of He
rev, Assyrian and other Semitic Ian
,uages in Johns Hopkins university,
ays:
II have always believed that the
civilization of ancient Egypt was de-
rived from Babylonia, more especially
rom southern Babylonia, bordering ON
he northern shore of the Persian gulf.
The Babylonians who invaded Egypt
nay have been Semites, but their civil
,ation was, no doubt, derived from the
aborigines Of Babylonia-
Viz, the Sumerians.
"Many points of contact between the
'umerians and the Chinese have already
zen pointed out Professor Terrien de
Iacouperie of London has written on
his subject, and the Rev. O. J. Ball
las published number Of papers ON
linguistic affinities between Sumerian
md Chinese.
lido not think it impossible that the
Utilization of ancient Egypt was de-
wed from southern Babylonia, and
nat there was connection between the
arly civilization of the pre-Semitic in
abltants of Babylonia and the early
of China. The population of
ncient Egypt may have consisted of an
frican substratum infiltrated with
abyloniana invaders "-Chicago Trib-
ne.