The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-01
THE OLDEST JEWELRY.
Rare Specimens of the Egyptian Gold
 smiths Art

Rare Specimens of the Egyptian Gold
 smiths Art.
 To anticuarians there are few more fascinating exhibitions than those ot the Egypt Explora ton Fund, which il has been the custom of some years past to hold throughout the month of July at University College, Cover street. Patient researches carried on during the past season have brought to light by far the oldest examples of jewelry known to exist, and the specimens of the goldsm.ths' craft to be seen are many hundreds of years earlier than any previously found.
 The investigations Of 1S99-1900 placed Psychologists in possession of full knowledge, not only of the Kings of the First Dynasty, approximately 4715 to 4514 B. C.. but revealed also many mysteries of an even dinner and more distant past connected with "The Ten Kings before Menes" These latest re- searches have thrown much fuller light upon the prehistoric period, and MT Maciver, who has explored two large cemeteries at Fl Amrah. is able to state that one of them, belonging to the first half Of that remote age, and the second, extending from the earliest days down to the First Dynasty, bridge an interval concerning which there has hitherto been only the most shadowy speculation.
 As usual at these exhibitions, a clear and concise catalogue Is available, and the least learned is enabled to enjoy intellgently these wonderous relics that time has spared. So precious, however, are the bracelets found on the mummy of the Queen of Fer at Fl Me- hesna, that the authorities of the mu- scum at Cairo would not permit them to be brought to England, and the Lon don visitor must rest with exact mod els of them. There are four in all the first consisting of a row of facades with the royal hawk alternately of gold and turquoise. The second has gold centerpiece copied from the cen ter of lotus flower, having on each side a group of turquoises and large ball amethyst Who shall, indeed, tell the true story of Queens love, for interwoven into the back are strands of human hair and gold thread, set with turquoise and anne thyst?
 The third Is of gold, lapis lazuli, and turquoise beads, and the last Is of -glass-shaped gold and amethyst beads. Expert examination has been made of them and proves that each bead had it's particular place in the scheme and that the soldering of the gold is technically perfect, showing no race of excess or difference of color.
 But if these are only facsimiles, here are treasures hardly less marvel ,us, which are the actual objects. There is the scepter that was the sym pol of King Khasekhemuis might and najesty-a slender copper rod, over which pierced cylinders of sard or cor lelian have been strung bead-wise, ,nited by broad and heavy gold bands, looking at it one could not fail to re- all that some thousands of years later | he sardius found place in the first row | f stones of the breastplate of Aaron. l he High Priest Five exquisite little vases In polished | ornelian and dolomite marble, with | ids of hammered gold, from the same | tomb, are polished and | ainty as when they were made, hough every event recorded in human istory has taken place since they left heir artificers hands. And hardly ass remarkable are the El Amrah dis overies of prehistoric pottery, dolls i ,ifh cI,r1y blar r1S ha iI- and r,,da ,,,olaIz I clay of oxen and other animals. If eeded, perhaps, only one other dis overy to link the eternal truths With oday, and that was found in the tomb a young girl, probably daughter of lena, the founder of Memphis, whose
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