The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-05

bronze bracelets. cunningly turned into
serpents, alloys of silver and gold copper
and brass, and other tools of the earlier
stage when pure copper was used. To IL
lustrate how near akin mankIns has
been through these myriads of years, it
is only necessary TO mention the discoV-
cry in one of the tombs of what mast have
served as a baby's nursing bottle in the
long ago. 1t was an earthen vase, with a
hole in the side into which a bit of cloth
might be inserted that the baby might
draw his milk from the vase. Is there
anything new under the SUM-"
Besides the common pots for kitchen
use, and the fine vases for the parlor,
there we're discovered pieces of wood won
derfully inlaid with pieces of colored glass,
showing that the secret of manufacturing
glass was known even then. This seems
to indicate a long period of preparation,
or development for men did not invent
glass when they were crude and uncivil-
lied. In fact. the discoveries at Abydos
open so wide vista of possibilities that
we are scarcely surprised to hear that
the tombs of the gods of Egypt have been
actually found But fore this startling
discovery was made NJ. Amelineau stirred
up the worlds Psychologists by the an
nouncement that he had found the names
of sixteen royal personages hitherto I'M
known. He knew that they were royal
for their names were written in q pecu-
liar device, technically known as the
"house." and it was just as If the sculp-
tor had engraved king so and so. 1t is
from this ''house" design that the word
Pharaoh is derived, or rather the device
signifies Pharaoh. from the Egyptian
Per-aa, Great House." that is, the palace
or the court
When NJ Amelineau opened some of
these graves he found them TO be the
tombs of these great unknown kings al
ready acknowledged as Kings of Upper
and Lower Egypt" but not yet known as
Sons of the Sum-" the title of later Egyp-
tan monarchs. Among these was one
whose name he reads Den, another called
GA, and fourteen besides, some of whose
titles could not be read, as they were en-
tirely new. For instance one was indi-
Gated by the sculpture of a sergent, but
how this is to be pronounced or what it
means no Egyptologlst has yet found out
On comparing the names just found with
all the long list of Egyptian Pharaohs
not one like any Of them could be found
and 1t was very logically concluded that
these antedate Menes, and that only now
are we reaching the earliest history of
Egypt
Names No Man Can Read.
The tombs are primitively constructed
| some of the walls being so irregular that
Il is to be doubted whether the plumb inc
teriors of the tombs were most intere l.
ing. Some of them were so short that 1t
was evident that no human body could
have been laid here at fun length and the
| explanation was forthcoming when at last
in a tomb which no vandal Arab had
reached, a body was found all curled up
and surrounded with earthenware pots
containing food ointments, etc. OF course
| there was no thought then of embalming
and il was entirely due to the dryness Of
| the soil that the body had been preserv-
| ed at all. In the tomb of the Pharoan
whose name was Indicated by a serpent it
was found that there were a number of
adjoining chambers, probably intende I
! for the bodies of his wives or OF his prom
inent court officials. The tomb of one of
these, by name Nebnofer, good mas
ter" a royal scribe was among thos
| found. The floor of this tomb was made OF
| heavy sycamore planks which may we /
stand as the oldest planks in the world,
| being some 5000 and odd years old as wel
as can be estimated. Instead of having
| been nailed down to crosspieces, they were
| simply tied together by bands of brass
which were stil found in place. The NOR
tar, too, was found 10 have been mike
with hbres Of palm-leaves, much as hair
is now used 10 mix with plaster. proving
| that this secret was known a few years
ago.
Prof. Maspero agrees with NJ. Amelin-