Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-31
4 ROUND THE WORLD
4 - WITH PROF. PARKS

Cairo, Egypt-The beautiful building
for the museum at Cairo cost a million
dollars; but the cost and architecture
| are as nothing compared to the wonders
it contains. It's treasures come from the
tombs of distant ages, and along its cor
ridors one can walk among the dead
bodies and the relics of a civilization OF
, 5000 years ago. Nothing is recent, and
everything is Old very old. A revela-
ton it is to any one to see what skill,
what knowledge, and what power was
possessed by the ancient Egyptians.
There are mummies of kings and queens
and others, universal skeletons Of ami
mals-bulls, crocodiles, dogs, cats. chick
ems; there are hundreds of statues and
busts and collins and sarcophag; there
are columns, and pillars and tablets;
there are innumerable jewels; there are
linens, ropes, strings, furniture, beds,
chairs, boxes, cases, weapons, chariots
swords, bows, arrows, javelins, hoes, pick
| axes, adzes ploughs, shoemakers knives,
razors, hatchets. whetstones, chisels,
pinchers, surgical instruments, kitchen
utensils, sandals. shoes, bottles, vases.
lamps, basins. pans metal mirrors, chill
dren's toys dolls, balls covered with
skin, cord balls, draughtboards, with
draughtmen in blue glazed porcelain,
musical instruments, eyes, cymbols, per-
| fume boxes of wood with ivory spoons,
bottles with good wishes for the New
Year, vases and trays of wood and ala
baster, and other articles too numerous
to mention.
| One is surprised at the display of jew
els in the jewelry room of the museum.
/ Evidently rugs, bracelets, earrings, and
precious stones have been in fashion
from time immemorial: and stranger still,
y ma hat ha
only bedecked themselves with costly
| Jewels in lifetime, but also they took
their jewels with them to the grave, hop
ing to have them ready for use in the
days to come.
| Princess Khumuit had several gold
chains-one of simple pattern, one from
which hung a butterfly in gold filigree
work, one long chain with twelve PEN
dants; she had rosettes. medallions, mo-
sales, armlets, necklaces and strings of
beads of rare value.
| Princess Sithoit had necklace made
up of seven rows of beads of gold and
precious stones arranged as follows: Car
Mellon, green feldspar, lapis-lazali, gold
carnelion, feldspar, then two rows Of
pearshaped beads, the upper gold, the
lower carnelion.
Queen somebody Il have forgotten her
name.) had necklaces with beads, car
Mellon, jasper, colored stones, bits of
J coral, greenish red, and whitish enamel
Queen Ahhotpu had a flexible gold
chain, nearly yard long, finished off at
each end by a golden goose head with
beat neck; the necklace was closed by
tying the two goose heads together. A
fine scarab hangs from the chairs, the
body and legs of solid gold.
One of the rooms Of the museum is de-
voted to manuscripts or papyni. Frc-o the
Book of the Dead is taken a quotation
| intended to be of service as a kind of
negative confession for the soul about
to be weighed in divine DaIance."
81 have never committed any fraud
against men. / have not caused grief to
the widow. I have not lied before the
| judgment seat I do not know falsehood.
have never imposed upon an overseer
of the workmen in any day more work
than he was bound to do. I have not
been negligent. have not been idle. I
have not caused any to hunger. 1 have
not caused any to weep. l have killed
no one. have not caused any to be