Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-24

and there uncovered ccmetorise OF an
cicnt times which give us q new view
OF Egyptian civilization
" was IN connection with the Boston
museum that he began his work al the
pyramids. and. as II Is now carried cm
the museum gets all Of the art dis
covcrics. while Harvard receives every
thing found bearing upon history and
chronology. 1t should be said that one
halt of az that is unearthed goes to
tho flrvptiau government ANA the 9TH
er half to the United states.
UNCLE SANS SUCCESSFUL GAM
BG.E.
The story OF the allotment OF the
afchaen'ngical territory about the pyra-
nids is intercstlDc The government
was anxious to have the country exca-
waited, and there wcrc three nations
ready 10 do The work The tiiee
We're Germany Italy and the United
states. Archacologists representing
"3ch OF these countries came here as
It's representatives and the whole of the
Gizeh pyramid field WAS turned over
10 them with The understanding that
Egypt was to have half OF the discover
les,
Then the question came up as to how
the field should be divided. As IL was
then, IL was % great area OF sand not
tar from the bauks OF the Nile with tho
big pyramid Of Cheops and the smaller
ones Of khetlen and Myccrinus rising
ont Of IL, each being quite a distance
apart fcom the others Each nation
wished to do Independent work ana the
arohaeolosists finally agreed to divide
the tract into three sections and east
lots for them. | am told that Mrs. DR..
Reisner held the straws In the draw
ing the United States got the tract
just north of the Great Pyramid and
Germany and Italy those 10 the south
of It. Our tract was thought to he the
best OF all aud Uncle Sans luck has
been no better evidenced than right
here We are making more finds than
both the other nations put together and
are bringing new life 70 the pages OF
history.
IN THE DESERT WITH AN AMER
ICAN EXCAVATOR.
went out to the pyramids today
and called upon the chief Of the Amer
lean excavation works. DR.. Reisner has
built him a home under the shadow of
old Cheops. He is beyond the greatest
of the pyramids with the sands reach
ing for miles away on the north. south
and west of him. His house IS built of
stones which probably came from the
pyramids. II is long, one story struc-
large enough to contain laboratory.
a Photographic establishment and the
necessary instruments of an archaeolo-
. gist
One part of 1t is the living quarters
\ of Or, Reisner and his family. He has
his wife and baby with him, and as we
chatted together his little daughter,
bright-eyed infant not more than year
or so old played about our feet. The
baby was born here on the edge of the
LibNan desert, ana her youth and the
age of old Cheops that great tomb OF
more than 1000 years ago. were strik-
ing in their contrast. AS / looked at
the little one | thought of the tombs
of the babies OF more than 40 centuries
ago which her father is now eXcayating.
During my stay we examined some
photographs of DR.. Reisner's discov-
cries One represented three statues of
well-to-do couple who lived here in
those bygone ages. 1t was Tell and his
wife. The faces were life-ilke and l
doubt not Mr. and Mrs. Teu sat for
them.
There were other photographs of OBJ
jects found in the cemetery of the rich,
and also some found In the cemetery of
the poor. The higher classes of that
time were buried nearer the pyramid,
and beyond them, farther up the desert