Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-04-17
THE NATIONAL
MUSEUM seen
IN CAIRO CITY
Here Are On Exhibition the
Many Dead Bodies of the
Famous Kings of Egypt AS
Seen BY Correspondent.
&c. c. Young.y
Carlo. Egypt, March I

&C. c. Young.Y
Carlo, Egypt, March 20. 1905
There is one thing in this land that
no where else in the world can be
found, and which is a great lesson TO
any one permitted to see it. that is the
well preserved dead bodies of the
many kings OF Egypt. A day spent
/ in the National Museum in Carlo is
privilege which l have longed for in
the passing years of my student life,
and / fingered there and left with the
firm determination to return the sec
There is one thing in this land thar
tund and third day. Such wealth OF
history and antiquity all under one
root and so well arranged that with a
/ little knowledge of French one can in
few days confirm ali he has learned
in the past and learn in the few days
time more than he could in the reading
of thousands of pages of ancient his
tory.
| learned In few hours woere the
Greeks got their mythology and art of
sculpture, it was from Egypt This
land was also in their civilization by
thousands of years when Athens was
founded 1900 b. C. / learned in here
and other places in Egypt where both
Greece and Rome secured their models
for huge buildings. great columns ana
colossal statues. No man who has seen
Luxor and its ruin win attempt a des-
cription, that is why / shall not The
temple of Karnak, has pillars in it,
many of them yet IN the best of CON
dition, as big as the largest Red Wood
trees in California and several en-
frances to the temple are guarded by
statues as large as the statue of Lib
oEty at New Yprk harbOrl Think
of it, America has but one great statue
on the capitol at Washington, and
thousands of years ago upper Egypt
had many of them. This is the land
where Greece. Rome and others got
their sculpture; but of course all of
them have improved on the beauty.
Before going further with the things
in the National Museum l viii state
that all the bodies and other relics
here have been taken from the royal
tombs and temples 1t is against the
law for any man to find any old relic
and not offer it for sale to the museum.
The most active man in the antiquity
work in Egypt is wealthy American,
Mr.. Davis, and many believe that the
excavations have just begun. And
no country in all the Orient offers such
q dry soil for a tomb as Egypt. Pal
iestine has many tombs but they are
all damp. / entered, dozens of tombs
in Palestine, of kings, % prophets, but
in all of them there was dafnpness
such as TO stifle candle like in a
damp mine. But not so on the Lybian
desert where all the tombs of Egypt
were made and hewn from the thirs
lty lime stone rock which retains under
ground an even temperature day and
/ night A few of these tombs were
J found in the time~of Strabo, the Greek
geographer, who lived at the time OF
Christ, and he says they were dry and
that it was not a small wonder the
bodies We're well preserved. For some
reason tomb exploration was forgotten
, for good until it was revived about
thirty years ago and has made history
of the forgotten past afresh in that
! time.
As well as history can make out the
case the Egyptians buried their dead
up to 5000 B. c., in asittipg posture and
!, put no writing on the stone coffin oil
sarcophagus, and from this date on
ward they began burying their dead as
we do, and also putting writing on the
: coffin. Several tombs are now oper
7 where bodies are sitting and no namC
on the coffin, or sarcophagus. All o.
! this is shown in the museum where
! saw it and also in the many tombs
!. that | visited 1t seems that when al
Egyptian king mounted his throne he
j began at once mis- burial preparations
as to his tomb and the stone sarco
J. phagus. l saw about fifty of thest
: granite sarcophagi and they will aver
: age about ten feet long. five feet higf
and four feet wide; they are cut on
of solid piece Of granite and lid t.
match is cut and put on top. Some
lof them have been brought to tbs
museum, and many have been left IL
: the tombs where they were found. Al
: tne bodies of any consequence and o
5 the royal families have been moved t.
the museum. To look on the face ant
see the features of the Pharaoh wht
lived when Moses was born, 5000 year
ago Is no small thing. and Egypt Il
the only place in the world where thii
|. can be done, OF to see as well the face
: OF Seti the first, and his son Ramese'
! the second. And see the hair on thei
heads. the teeth in their mouth, tn
flesh and skin on the nose Showing
the shape OF the organ. The sigh
of such things and their ages staggere'
me and I returned to the hotel tina
!. aight to see in my dreams these faces