The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25

I times. which give us a new view of Egyptian civilization.
 ! IL was in connection with the Boston 1 Museum that he began his work at the Pyramids and. as 1t ig now carried on, the museum gets all of the art discover. les, while Harvard receives everything found bearing upon history and ethnol- ogy. It should be said that one-half of all that is unearthed goes to the Egyp- tian government and the other half To the United States.
 Uncle Sam's Successful Gamble.
 Inc story of the allotment of the arch geological territory about the Pyramids is interesting The government was anx- ious to have the country excarated, and there were three nations ready to do the work. The three were Germany Italy and the United States. Archaeologsts representing each of these countries came | here as its representatives and the whole of the Gizeh Pyramid field was turned over to them with the understanding that Egypt was to have half Of the discov- cries
 Then the question came up as to how the field should be divided. As 1t was then, it was d great area of sand not far from the banks of the Nile with the big Pyra- mid of Cheops and the smaller ones of Khefren and Mycerinus rising out of 1t, , each being quite distance apart from the others. Each nation wished 10 do Independent work. and the archaeologists finally agreed to divide the tract into three sections and cast lots for them. l am told that Mrs. pr. Relsner held the straws. In the drawing the United States got the tract just north of the Great Pyramid and Germany and Italy those to the south of 1t. Our tract was thought to be the best of all and Uncle Sams luck has been no better evidenced than right here We are making more finds than both the other nations put to- gether and are bringing new life to the pages of history
 In the Desert With an American Ex-
 caVator
 l went out to the Pyramids today and called upon the chief of the American excavation works Dr. Reisner has built him q home under the shadow of old Cheops He Is beyond that greatest of the Pyramids, with the sands reaching for miles away on the north, south and west of home. His house is built Of stone which probably came from the Pyramids. It is a long, one-story struc- ture not over twelve feet in height, but large enough to contain a laboratory photographic establishment and the nec- essary instruments of an archaeologist.
 One part of it is the living quarters of Dr. Reisner and his family. He has his wife and baby with him, and as we chab- ted together his little daughter, a bright eyed infant not more than year or so old played about our feet, The baby was born here on the edge of the Libyan desert, and her youth and the age of old Cheops. that great tomb of more than 400O years ago. were striking in their con trast As l looked at the little one l thought of the tombs of the babies of more than forty centuries ago which her father Is now eXcavating.
 During my stay we examined some pho tographs of pr. Reisner's discoveries, One represented three statues of well-to-do couple who lived here in those by-gone ages. It was Teti and his wife. The faces were ife-lilSe, and 1 doubt not MT. and Mrs. Teti sat for them.