The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-25
ANCIENT TOMBS
FOUND IN EGYPT.
Rare Discoveries Made
BY a French
Scientist.
OLD MYTHS CLEARED UP.
Nausoleums Of Seven Gods and King
Weird and Wonderful Tales
Of Early Days on
the Nile.

f hIsa 1900 IN her present rate Oh
aging she will soon be oiael sna
IeSis or China, which empiiss.
.ovre NJ their historians persS''
Than the world itself pr,,. limit
IN ,s8 Egypt had reached tne :, Today
NJ q 900 years, and couia ploN . 600 wears
:. az, years old. gain OF I"'o SJsn-
T.ther Time must ride a u.s.
ar xbeel in the land OF ,he S'
snA nyrramids and DO wen paceu ain
r,,.,,cnran f. responsible for TINS go
- ,s,ar ~ much learning ana cap
a., for natient research. Il: hs.s,.as call
S.sn digging in a place the n~ .ronserfuI
Mother OF Pots. and mas i' ,san any other
sh,nxs older by 2ooo years tla" -. found
Is .ve, made in Egypt. lie mas ,1iars
s.s .,s,,,ha Of several kings whom - ,ha
ts-.sofore had thought TO DC h nyanaorv
s,,,,. reported OF them was 80 800 IKE
Ehav we're hardly more thaIi -, nre
chose on the long hsts OF o., ,olk do
e.,s,or,c China and Japan. ,hs ana
s.,ss.,ately build tombs for my ths, ~ -,
~. yytth them a great supply Oh a. ~,
49,, .,a.ea for them TO feast on " Ala
c,hcr world. At least the 70 s,,,,ona n
80 40 40 When they purieu aliva
-. a per.on that had been a c,ua ,rrv a
real nesh and blood. one Wing discover
,.var the persistent deliver pen ','.,.
,,,,pd tombs of the divlhites -
No nas "a set. osiris was the chiel So
OF Egypt, and par s.,, aigrIng. 1t
Share Amelineau has been ulss ,hat
would appe na brought 10 earth. TX
n,orcr Ia correct In his esuma.o
va scho,arr respect his Judgment ne,
80 shovu this great divinity 70 -
Ran only a hero once. whonn ~ ,nak
worshiped into $1,000 So In other coun-
angs gods nave haps ,,rr,her and Horus
tries. Set was osh
was his son. 90. ,rasept work In
Ameiineau pss" s,av N, n. but he has
ls9s, and II sun puny -, ana conscien-
long ranked among ea aaia he has
tious investigators W t,,s arst appear
chosen for his iile ~orn.,sa an ancient
Mncc before rehuc's article entitled
Egypt was IN iS's, '''s,,as. the Finding
--latest EGYPTIAN LIS ,sss a,,neared Lake
of Deir-ei- Bahari. IN i'eS ~ norun,ents
Nocris. as Shown ny Ahcle.. ,rha uexts
md by Recent E&pioiaa s,,n.n,s Of
year he published ,opus rhah,a, ,Dia-
the New Testaheh. :" a. tha world
iect." and In 1871 ne .arsa. Of Lover
s.His,ory OF the ana a transla-
1sgypt" with copuc va. -. .aussd
ttoY' The attention these "i'.li's -. - "a
however was mild eethpa'su -. nos INST
nv his latest work, which ., 10 ttt'a
Issued from the pteAs ~ T., Ahvaoa lsgg-
IL THE New E&ca.".oss snnch making
1896" This bids tar 70 az a., Year of *
III tells OF AmeitheAu a.a,, tiitg-
cavating In Abydos, ana mas nna"s Ma
trations showing just WHAT '"'
accomplished -. n. Samuel
In Apeaking about the "otA' ,,s,',..,ol-
"A, Binion, one OF inc lo' A.. ar,hv ~
ogists In New fors. says
ths highest conSidera.ioh. WA hard ana
'Amelineau always nas t,,Nta, land n
conxeientiousiy' SAYS ~. .,,s ral,nx from
ne tells us he has unesflhou 49, ,nat
those ancient hillooks AZ om US ~, -
arc s,0oo years old. We may pc 80 49,
rood reasons Tor ms hNAAe"s a.. -
nos been IN Egypt since ne psa US, n,s ~
cent Investigations, NO nave NY ~" 49,
tomhs he has bfeusht I" "sns' S..s,ras-
photographs he has taken anu 'ne ,''F. vi,
sions ia plaster which ne may mar. w.
render the journey uhheeess".s =. 49,. y
who have not the tiins 20 10 w u,hi,cat
r.. I.agge, OF the Soo1e'E y. -, .,
Archaeology London, says tetelInAs ~
The recent discoveries IRON tnS ,s $3.50. 800
Il would seem there ruled oNe' AZ , s,ss =,
durins "" t"t."S s,s,,'t,h f,yhnre he Nor
ran. friend OF AmeNneau, mas o''n "'s
gins since 1880 seFlce OF NlhSs, w." ,
names do not appear ,n an, ~, ~s,
mants Of MauethoH hFts 'n"N ISL -
s1ano down 60 us, Manetho was haHNe
Esyptlan historian. a priest W va OF i'n.
epolls These kinsa goNeFhvu peut'"
sufficiently civilized to pc sAl''N IN W.
fnx rreeioes haa'Hs, l.ls,..',,t. .s ,-,.fcrs
and capable OF bUlidlns vast hlp'N'l"i,a
skilloa Ia pottery and In engtaNlhs ON '"o
hardest materials, lncludlns t9-N
tal. burning inAteaN OF eHA' -t"..h' ''''.
dead. and dcsfyinE thriF ueNa htnts. ~
whose tpufs thny u'A4e N.NN'
we are on the Drink OF e'sN"''''' F'"S
ably, ~ great Importance