The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-05
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the earliest of the Pharoahs mentioned by
Manetho had ever existed. The discovery
of his tomb has set that doubt at rest.
But NJ. Amelineau mas added oil 10 the
flame of sensational discoveries by finding
what he claims are the tombs of Osiris,
Isis and other Egyptian deities. These
were supposed to have been mere imagi-
nary presentations of nature. The full
report of these discoveries has not yet
been published, but this revolutionary in
vesugator has prepared the way to II by
issuing the first volume of his account OF
the excavations at Abydos, the sacred res
idence of Osiris. Here he has found pre-
historic tombs some $50 In number, the
contents of which are more than astonish-
ing, when II is considered that they go
back at least 900 years. Fortunately for
us VINO are animated by an intense Curl
osity as TO the doings of those distant
ages and the men who lived then, the
Egyptians had the peculiar notion that
death was but the bridge from this life to
the next, which would resemble this one 50
closely that the very food and furniture
used here would be useful there. on this
account they furnished the tombs more as
they would furnish homes than as one
would expect resting places for the dead
10 be furnished. Therefore in them have
been found the very food, and the utens Is
which the men and women of that time us
ed while alive. 1t Is TO this fortunate acct
dent tndt IS Que the tAdItAACFS WIN NAAA~ta
a nineteenth century excavator can say
precisely how those who died GOO years
B. C. lived, what they ate, how they dress
ed and what was the range of mind and
civilization in that ancient time.
Found Their Food.
In Inc lars and vases of these old tombs
Amelineau has found various cereals, like
wheat and rye, proving the agricultural
tastes of those people. Date stones are
Iaf "a
even then appreciated for its food prod
ucts Nor were these prehistoric people
veeetarians, for if they were why should
there be the bones of oxen and the horns
Of the gazelle in their tombs?
Amelineau has actually taken us back
90 the stone age and the beginning Of the
use Of cetals in Egypt. for he has found
jnnumerable arrow heads cunningly chip
nod out Of flint, and knives, scrapers and
saws made of the same hard material. The
decorative instinct was already alive, or
why should these old workmen have spent
days on polishing and chipping stone
brace ets2
II is almost possible to trace the de-
velopment of civilization step by step
through these remains, for mere are earth
en- plates 50 rudely shaped as to prove
that the potter s. wheel, one of the first
inventions Of primitive man the world
over was not yet known. Then come
other plates and pots and jugs just as
surely turned on that very useful ma
chine showing the next step upward. The
following evolution of inventive genius
shows itself in the more elaborate pottery,
and the use of metals for making rude
tools Hard stone was now cut and
shaped, diorite onyx and rock crystal jars
and vases were made with so much art that
their highly polished surfaces astonish the
modern discoverer. 1t seems as If the
use of the diamond or some other hard
substance must have been known by the
people who followed out some of these
vases, on the inside of which are still to
he seen the marks of the cutting imple-
ments. Remember this was 5000 years
ago. and few would believe that the ar
tistic instincts Of man had been so early
developed were not the ocular proof forth
coming in The artistic creations Of these
ancient artisans. IL was found that some
OF the tombs were paved with a kind d
rose-colored marble, not native to Egypt.
and therefore this must have been import
ed from some distant country. showing
that the men Of that time Travelled and
believed in imported goods much as
we DO
Carvings and Furniture.
From siege to Stage the perfection Of the
workmanship and the care displayed in
Communication increases constantly. The
primitive geometrical designs on the ear