The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-11
UNCOVERING
 EGYPT'S PAST
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF RE-
 WARDED SERVICE.
Rapid Survey of the Great Work in Which American Subscribers Have Had an Honored Share-How the Fund Has Generously Enriched the Museums of Fine Arts.
(Boston Transcript.)

| The Egypt Exploration Fund was founded in England in 1883, and estab- lishe,i one year later in the United States, with the present year complet- ing g. quarter of a century'S collaDor- ation From the beginning the work of th.s Fund received the indorsement land .upport of thoughtful scholars in various parts of this country. When the s. cond annual meeting in London was cid in 1S84-America's first year the vi .e president for the United States James Russell Lowell, represented there I'll American members.
 The ymajority of those charter mem bers gre no longer this side the Nile, but u oon the membership roll their names stand like sentinels guarding a long line of subscriptions-each sub- scription a spade for a year-recover- ing history, restoring the march of progress in the ancient world.
 No one could forsee the richness of the presentations to the American side of this cO-wOrk. The leading mu- seurns of the United States, such as the Metropolitan of New York, Un- iversity of Pennsylvania, Haskell Mu- scum of Chicago. Carnegie Museum of Pittsburg, Detroit Museum, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the headquar- ters of the Fund in Fremont Temple, as we'll as many small independent
 
 universities such as Leland Stanford IT,, of California, Yale, Wellesley and Harvard, all have received gifts of antiquities and priceless papyri manu- scripts freely placed by the society wherever science and learning would best be promoted by their instructive value.i
 But the work itself is the chief con- sideration. It has been one long TO- nance in archaeology. AS the work was primarily organized to shed light upon the Old Testament narrative, so it's first years work opened with the discovery of Pithom by M. Naville. Pithom- Succoth of the Scriptures, where the chariots of Joseph went up and met Jacob his father, where were found the store chambers of the three orders of bricks, where occurred the advent and the exodus of Israel, still attracts the same attention that greet ed it's first notice of recovery in the spring of 1883.
 For the second years work Profes- sor Petrie examined carefully more than twenty sites before determining the seasons operations, especially not ing pottery and bricks, which furnish ed a chronological scale from which to date in connection with any anti uuities found on the surface. More than twenty sites from which to
  What halcyon days those were to be sure!
 San was finally chosen, and San proved to be the ancient city of Zoan, built seven years before Hebron. But here the mounds were of enormous ex- tent, and they consisted of a whole series of cities built one above the top and city of Abraham at the bot tom For such a mammoth undertak- ing by the new society a special fund of $5,0e0 was raised by great effort and much vicarious giving secured by eloquent persuasion.
 Having chosen the site, the work waS extraordinarily thorough. Every block of stone was cleared around and every fragment of inscription copied and the most complete plan and de- scription rendered to that time of any site is Egypt.
 The value of such system few years ago was clearly shown at Aby dos, which has been hastily excavat- ed by Amelineau and abandoned. The following season Professor Petrie for the Fund re-examined a tomb of Aby dos that had been exploited by Ame- lineau and then burned over, and from this tomb came the wonderful brace lets of the Queen of Fer, second king Of the first dynasty; jewelry so beau tiful, so apparently modern in it's eX- quisite fashioning that illustrations of it went around the world delighting scientists everywhere with the perfect ly developed rosette of gold 4500 B. c. Still other golden treasures from these royal tonbs rewarded this patient re- examina tion.
 From the tomb of King Khasekhe- mui. last Pharaoh of the second dyn- asty, were recovered six vases of do- lomite marble, each with a cover of thick gold fitted over the top and se- cured with a double turn of twisted gold wire This tomb was also over turned by the French, yet here was