The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-09
GREAT TEMPLE DUG UP
UNDER SLNAI'S SHADOW

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There were SO many civilizations in,
cred up-that we must not be sur
prised at finding few direct traces of
the stay Of the Jews. So many peo-
pies were carried captive that the mem
Dry OF the Jews was lost among them:
But that is what adds to the value of
this Semitic temple at Sinai.
One most astonishing thing about
the find is the discovery Of a great
mass Of burnt ashes, the remains of
many thousands of burnt offerings by
other Semitic visitors from
Tyre Or Sidon, or other parts Of that
by the rise of Assyria. Some of the
pilgrims who tried, thru the gate of
dreams, to foresee the future must have
died in that sterile valley, for DR.. Pc
trie has discovered tombs unlike any
in Egypt ombs built in the shape of
beehives, and containing curious brace
lets of shell. Or perhaps these were
ers, far from the embalmers, digging
here for turquoises. Those miners kept
their food in jars and when they went
home to Egypt they buried their jars
for safety in the soil below their. huts
Or. Petrle has found many Of these jars
Just as they were left. The miners
who left them never returned to dig
What chance Of fate or death befell
them on the way9
Amidst Perpetual Romance.
Delving in this under world of the
past is perpetual voyage of romance.
1t surpasses the journeys of Columbus
or Cortez. In that wonderful climate,
where the sun and air and sand COM
bine to annihilate time. the digger
IW9va fapIS ~ hozG irht c,1II 11y
enter new lost world, where man pos
sessed all we are searching after with
endless travail Of spirit. There are
times when the explorer almost feels
like an Intruder. Suddenly the pick
strikes against something, and he sees
revealed before him the toy horse of
some SO so loagaead Egyptian Child the dice
long paid his reckoning, the marbles
of some boy, the comb and glass of
some fine lady, the distaf of some poor
woman. ~, -, .,.s,f...... ..:... -
He feels like one who has broken un.
awaros into another man g house, and
finds himself alone with the sacred pri
vacies of intimate life. ...
There are many such objects in this
little exhibition----objects found in the
Greco-Roman settlements by Drs. Gren
fell and Hunt. There are beautiful
bits OF glass and mosaic-scent and per
fume bottles with wax shoppers, left on
some Roman lady $ toilet table-ree6
pens with sharp, split points, to write
on Wax-lvory hairpins, egg whippers
all the small devices, Of luxury known
to an ADVANCED civilization. These are
long civilization-the =, eve before the
long night Of Arab barbarism.
At the other end, from the earliest
| dawn of time, there is collection Of
the rudest flint instruments used by
prehistoric man in the Nile valley, anc
found on the tops Of the hills at Thebes
From a study of these f1ints and thu
positions in which they are found thu
Psychologists are gradually decipherine
the earliest Pharaoh-behind the great
pre-Pharaonic civilization that occupied
another 5000 years-perhaps the very
first beginning Of MAN. These f1ihtt
belonged to men who lived at least
10000 years ago. Then the Nile val
Icy was filled almost to the SUBMITS Of
the hills with a great flood of water
and man foregathered on the mountain
SUBMITS, precarious tenant Of bare
world. j>74 49, -.a". D.. =. >HR
Such have been the results of past
work, but Dr.. Petrie 3 work in the ST.
mai district opens q new field. u, Some
Of the mi CHEF critiss,'= tell us nova iowa
days that no exodus took place. These
discoveries at Sinai do not seem to sup
port them, but rather to confirm a mar
rative which, if entirely untrue, is Ger
tainly one Of the most amazing bits OF
convincing fiction in all literature.
| But may there not be more secrets
hidden under those yellow sands9 This
was the track by which the Jews arr
said to have wandered. Here was thu
mountain whence came the laws of con
duct which the world still reverence.