The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-05-05
TOMB OF PHARAOH.
GREAT ROYAL SEPULcHER IS
FOUND AT NAKADA.
Fiiisd with objects whose Makers Were
Persons OF Cnitute- Construction Of
the MAa.olsam was In ChaldeAn
style.

From the London Chronicle: In
the fascinating study OF anthropology
there has arisen no more interesting
problem than that Of the beginnings OF
civilization. Year by year patient
delving In the dust heaps Of Chaldea
and OF the Nile valley has carried our
knowledge backward an to-day the
records OF the FIRST OF the Pharaohs
and the prodynastlc age OF Egypt have
been rescued from the oblivion OF cen
turtles.
The first triumph In this great field
was won by Prof Petrie. who. guided
by the traditional antiquity OF Koptos,
as one OF the early settlements in the
Nile valley commenced explorations
on the site OF that city. Kopios was
not, however. the only prehistoric set
Element In middle Egypt. where the
early empire grew mp. The discoveries
at Balas and Nakada. on the edge Of
the Lybian desert. opposite Koptos.
and at Abydos. together with those
made last year at Hierakonopolis by
Mr. Quibell. show that we can assign
fairly definite area to the predynastlc
settlements OF the Nile valley They
extend from the Fayum In the north to
Kumel-Abmar or Hlerakonopolis In the
south. and. with the exception Of Kop-
tos, are chiefly found ON the fringe Of
the Lybian desert. The most impor-
tant discoveries In this field have been
those OF Mr.. DE Morgan. the director
OF the Glzeh museum nj Nakada. where
he has uncovered the great royal tomb.
with It's buried treasures. which has
been Identified by Mr.. Maspero and
most Egyptologists as the burial place
OF Mena. or Menes. the first OF the
Pharaohs." 1t would seem that when
once this prep haronic age had begun
TO yield mp It's secrets II did so In n
most ungrudging manner, for the work
OF Mr. AmelIneau at Abydos has re-
suited In the discovery OF several royal
tombs Of members OF the FIRST and sec
ond dynastles. and these OF an age, at
the latest, OF some 5000 years before
the Christian era.
The discovery OF the great royal
tomb at Nakada marks now the TIRES
hold OF Egyptian history. many cen
turtles prior to the age Of Senofru. aud
yet here we have numerous and forcl'
BILE indications OF a vast antiquity. be-
hind even this remote age. which can
not In reason be placed later than "a,
fifth or sixth millennla before tn,
Christian era. Already the Nile VALLEY
was populated by mixed races, ant
the northern and southern province
gave to the Pharaohs the dodble crown
The tomb OF Mcnes and It's treasure
are not the work OF primitive rae
or a community Just emerging from
dark ages OF savagery. II Is the worl
OF n people long used to building con
structlon and to the employment OF tn
fine arts. and not by any means lso
lated from the outer world. From al
anthropologlcal point OF view the dis
covery cannot be too highly estimated
The bullding-for II Is not rock Gu
or excayated. but royal dwelling plac
OF the dead-ls a parallelogram meas
uring "a by % meters. or exactly 10
fubits by 80 OF Egyptian measurement
"a proportion we shall see OF consld
cradle importance. The orientatlon (
also remarkable, the angles. not IN
sides. being turned TO the cardlna
points. To the students OF Egyptian
archaeology the structure presents a
once non-Egyptlan character. Tn
outer walls are embattled at reguia
intervals by buttresses. the whole be
Ing constructed Of crude brick. Tn
resemblance TO the massive brlcl
buildings OF South Chaldea, as show
In the temples OF Tello and Nlppul
Is most apparent, This Chaldean con
nectlon is considerably confirmed whel
we consider the proportions OF tn
building which are those almost In
variable In Babylonia, while the orlen
tation Is that Of the Chaldean builders
and not that OF the Egyptians. 4
shown by all buildings except tn
stepped pyramid at sakkara, which be
longs probably to the predynastSc age
The interior arrangements are mos
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