Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-06-14
TONBS N NILE
VALLEY OPENED
HUMAN BODIES BURIED AGES
AGO PROUGHT TO VIEW.
ANCIENT HISTORY REVEALED
Moro Thar 1900 Graves In This
Cradle % Human kinh Opened
49, Harvard Professor

played the Grave DigBer in Hamlet
over thoueand times. pish, tush--
q mere amucurl Professor George A.
Rcisucr VIII, is back amid the sym
phony con ,rts and the moth slain
elms of Cambridge, Mass, dug up
some twelve thousand graves on The
banks of the Nile IN few short
months, and revealed to an eager gov
crnmcut the history Of Nuba from
$500 bcrors Christ down to the pres
cnt day.
OF course ho didn't dig them hlm-
aalr-he hal some $50 men to help
him but ne looks energetic enough
to have don, the wi-I alone. Short
.topltv vir., he doesn't bear any
more m9lanco 10 the average
Harvard professor than Jack London
does to Pa'cival Polkadot the poet
president OF the Purple Primrose
cmo. He minds you constantly Of
4. Rooscyc az hc fires facts at YOU.
some people" said rrofc or
RRCisncr. scornfuly think an arch
Geological expedition is a long linger-
ing picnic You spread your tent in
a lovely valley, dig down a ways into
the earth, and pun out gold, silver
and other aluahle and desirable
things. Th'y ought 20 go on one Of
these plcni1s once, and learn some"
thing OF tha hard labor, the monoto,
nous detail q the calling"
Professor Vcisncr came back to this
country February Is, after several
weeks abroad to conduct certain
courses ut Harvard unil ersi,y, Among
his exploits was the discovery Of the
lcmplo whcr Ahab ana his unlovelY
spouse, Jcz"pcl lived in Samaria. This
was uncartrod while the professor
was WORKING with the aid OF the fund
established 10y Jacob schiff lie also
nosed around the pyramids and the
sphinx to considerable degree and
uncarthed many an early king and
his lady fair, TO say nothing Of many
important facts concerning the early
history Of Egypt.
As YOU listen 10 the professor talk
the rcnlizaurn suddenly comes to YOU
tat these strange beings who stare
at you out Of their weird wrappings
were actually human beings once
that tncy lorcd and hated and hoped
and planned
This lltre hd," he remarked.
started "A pvramid-the foundations
are .tnl there centuries have passed
and there has been no time, or no in'
cluatlon TO finish It,
You look at the little kid' in awe
and wonder what deed of violence
put an end ~ the dream Of pyramid
that should immortalize him Pro-
fcssor Rcisucr shows YOU another
picture. "a urLle face, almost untouch:
ed by the csituries
No one needs to tell us that man
was a king he says look at that
profile tina. fellow would have been q
leader of men"
And so, unusually well disposed to-
vnrd these ancient people about whom
the man to whom YOU are talking has
dug up so many human facts, YOU are
rcady to lcun OF the excavations
along the Eile, and the history of
Nuhla seem. a matter OF lively and
burning interest to you as this ac'
tive stock title man glows and ham
mars it home with his fist
once upon time. nothing ancient
about this, II was in 1902, they built
n dam at Assuan IN order that they
could withdraw from the Nile In tho
fan and winter lot OF water, sadly
needed for cultivation IN the spring
When the dam was finished gold
ace ceremony took place, generals
i'm uniform, speeches by the loca'
calyhrcucs. perhaps n poem by the
Frvptan james Wnitcomb Riley
Then. ia 1907, It suddenly occurred tC
the Egyptian government that II the
dam were raised 20 a height OF II;
meters above the Mediterranean sea
the reservoir would hold that mucf
more water
Immediately the history sharks Il
thc neigh hulrhood protested. They
pointed ont that an enlarged rcscr
voir meant the flooding of the lane
on both sIlrs Of the Nile above As
suau. land where lay buried most o
the nation Of Nubia, aud that the his
tory Of that people would he forcve,
soaked In oblivion The Egyptian
government was impressed ana ap
'wopri. ted at once $500 900 In orde
! 90 unearth mat history. Who woulC
ruperlutend the work? Profc 'soi
| Rcisner was at that moment diggin,
round the pyramids, his reputation
was we'll known, and the Egyptian Of
/ uDIals sent ior him, an American, anC
urged him o find ou; all he coul,
about the Nubia Of long ago
Assisted ~ G. Nj. Firth and A. NJ
/ Rl8vkman 4 oxford, and Orlc Bate
of Harvard Professor Relsncr tool
charge OF IN, expedition in September
.1q07 Up to date the expedition ho
entered flft six cemeteries, eXamin
Iod minutoly and recorded the facts o'
'I2.0o0 graves and made 10000
photographs And the work IL still
going on, though Professor Rolsne
dropped ou. OF 1t some time age
.tcaylug the gentlemen named abov
In charge,
We had not lett Assuan," sal
Professor pclsnor, before VIC un