The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-28
UNEARTHlNG A MIGHTY KING.
AN EGYPTIAN MONARCH WHO
DIED $500 YEARS AGO.
meath the sands for Ages-The Oldest
Greek Poem Has Also Deen Found.

From the Chicago Daily Neus.
In all the history Of excavation no such
intensely human story has been dug out
of the forgotten past as has been brought TO
the light OF day by the recent work OF the
German Orient Society Of Berlin at the Pyrs-
mid of Abusif
The report OF almost year Of exploration
has just been made. II IL couched In scien-
tifc, matter-of-fact language But In It
s the whole drama Of life-a tremendous
sermon preached by fallen stones and royal
corpses and the sands Of the desert. with
mighty, all-conauering Death for their
text.
The German professors found a great king
So great was he that the great gods Sechmet.
the Lion-headed; Anubis. the Jackal-headed.
and the Nile gods are shown bowling before
MIN Upper and Lower Egypt were hs.
When he died men began to build vast tenn
pie of the dead for him
-Four thousand Ave hundred years ago
hey buried Ns-wo ser-rc. the kins. Aud tue
centuries passed. and his temple. uniinished.
disapl AIRED below the drifting sands. lie
and his family. his royal iayorite ana his
high priests became hidden deep below the
dwellings oil succeeding kings and priests
and theiT tomDs were pned over all. lhen
they. too. SANK away AND were forgotten
others buiH and aied-Esyptian Greek and
Christian in their turns. lhe great clock
OF history stiil wanted q thousand years to
the time OF the coming Of Christ. and Ne
woser-re. the king. was 40 utterly lost and
forgotten that the poorest oi the poor were
buried on TOP oil the mounds that hiu his
imperial tomo-ths tomb whion had been
set by It's mighty builders " defy eternity
Itself.
And tue German professors dug out song.
100. II was deemed 10 ue immortal when
written, so grand did IL seem 2,4OO years
ago that singer In LgypI had It put into his
tomb with him IL ~ u great roll or apyrus-
a poem oy liIuoth-os gionlying the ,.Cto-
rious hight OF Marathon aid almost certainly
the very oldest Greek book ever found The
poem that mad" such = vast stir once has
lain under tn, yuan sancs for more than
1000 years. ana sougs OF Mara.hoi lave piled
on songs and been forgotten ~ the dead piled
on the dead over the tomb Of the Egyptian
sin Ger.
Profs. Borchardt. yoelz and Decker
conducted the work Of excavati on. Their
FIRST discovery was the forecourt Of the Tenn
pie Of the Dead 1t had been left unfinished.
aud most OF the beautiful columns that had
been completed had fallen. But two mag.
nifceDt pillars were left. In that court yard
vas found the partly broken figure Of lion.
grandly proportoned and far beyond life
size. Its sculpture 10 80 hne that the
scientists agree that II was the work Of
sculptor of extra ordinary talent. The head
was perfectly preserved
The next discovery was that Of reliefs
depicting some of the most famous Egyptians
OF that time. whose names and deeds are
mentioned in many inscriptions found in
various parts Of Egypt. There are also de-
pictions Of sacrifice. One wall painting
shows the Strengthening OF animals before the
tonbs oil the great dead. Ano Their portrays
tall. beautiful peasant women who bear
offerings.
The great temple relief Of all was found
between the hall OF columns and the holy Of
holes II shows the King himself with apron
and lions tail as insignia Of his high rank
lie wears headdress q feat hers and horns,
H"uSs coward him. S% s sSs
1R q smaller relief N.-woser-rs Is pictured
whom he holds BY their hair
In digging out the chamber OF statues the
pain9ins. IL Was Intended TO- show sp.e door
set into the solid wall, The colors.. laid on
by hands and brushes Of which there has been
bright. and glowing. shining out Of their long.
Kept darkness y, into the light OF to-day as u
snsy s sa had the
Fortunately, the expedition numbered Z
skilful psinter among is members, and he
Of the anoent work u art us 'op' 10 'uN A1'
,Ine.. the 4 gers reached the tomb Of the
high ,Ss sJs After break
human eyes looked upon the coiips Of the
TOO. small for the last collins and the handles
the stones we're set in place and ,aisd. Those
Sss had been on that das q eipS as
Here great rnds were made; Large ships
be y sos nt ths sddEy
world. There were the great stone jugs
that had contained water to refresh the shades
and carved wooden statuettes OF the domestics
and slaves were scattered through the tomb.
the nG the stone 70 eos Would ID
they were they would be the arst mummies
condition TO bear removal to Europe, The
whole party gathered around eagerly while
the iSs pes and he foma
70 1t Just as he had been put to rest when
I'D j dem W., J,s sSSwss wa. wrapped in L. long
brown linen STROUD A cciored mask Of
inen and gypsum lay on his face. The mask
bead a%d ee sys hard sad "na made Tn
p the middle was Soiored Or sfisht bISe s't to
man had already become a sod. for. the. anci-
ent Egyptian sods had hair Of lspis.layuli;; !,
eas rsad ike the woodSn pow
Is nscd to this day in the Sudan. By his
side lay a little wooden statue representing
him. According to Egyptian belief this
statue was to do the dead mans work for
him In the under world
A woman was found next She was a
Sat -Nofer. the favoritc OF the King In that
Gorgeous lie Of 100 years 40 no doubt
apparel and surrounded with loneliness and
luxury But in death she was not to lie as
lies the "d true c queen , or her master PLACED
away In a bare chamber far from the habi-
tations OF the royal dead Hardly any Riits
were laid with her. Instead, as n In irony
Q grim Joke that was TO wait for inconceivable
time to make it, roint-they laid by the
comm OF the poor. forgotten courtesan a
bronze mirror without a handle and "A little
stone used for grinding rouge.
As digkiu lIotft sscd from u II point
the istory Of eCline beca me uncovered
WREN tie cxrlorers rea chcd the .rcmnants
OF TIE period OF 1000 before G. rist they found
abitntions OF priests, slowing that tie
temple Lad yotaries. But ley were poor
and merger, like the ruined era YES Of I e
khalifs. And when the workers res ol Ell
the rem ins OF 800 years before Christ they