Arizona republican., 1912-06-09
CITY IF DEAD
 ITS DISCOVERY
Description of the Excava- tions Which Are Being Made at Heliopolis, Once Center of Egyptia Il Learning
Especial Correspondence.D

LONDON. June S-The archaeolo-
 gicaI excavations under the direction
 of Daninos Pasha have now fully re-
 vealed the Metropolis of Hehopolis,
 which was the intellectual center of
 Egypt over four thousand years, and
 the place where Moses received the
 sacerdotaI and military training which
 enabled him to lead the Israelites out
 of their Egyptian bondage.
 The Metropolis is situated in the
 desert a trifle more than three miles eastward of the Matarish Obelisk The burial places cut from the rocks of the Arabian range were from 65 to 20 feet deep. They were covered with sand the removal of which re- vealed mummies of human bodies and the skeletons of sacred animals and birds. Undamaged Ibis eggs were also found. Unfortunately these tombs had been ransacked years ago by Romans and Arabs hunting for treasure, and only about five or six | per cent of them had escaped the ravageS of the treasure seekers. 1 A pillar has been found decorated with the black bull MneVis, and this l indicates what the eXcavators hope will prove to be in the newly dis covered Metropolis, q Mnevisseum, which is sure to contain objects and 1 documents of the greatest interest. Daninos Pasha is now devotng all 1 of his energies to uncovering this l Mnevisseum.
 The British School of Archaeology 1 has also been making some interest 1 ing discoveries as the result of their 1 excavations in the desert. At Mem | phis the excavatOrs for the school un- 1 covered a gigantic sphinx made of alabaster and weighing so tons This 1 of preservation. was carved and erected about 1900 E. C.
 At Heliopolis the school eXcavators uncovered an earthen fortress with walls over one hundred feet thick, | enclosing a rounded square a quarter of mile in diameter. It is not
 Egyptian work and probably dates 1 hack to the early barbaric invasion. l Central Arabia, which has been as 1 unknown to the white map maker as l the polar regions. has given up it's | secrets to NJ. Barclay Raunkaer, who has reported to the Royal Danish l Geographical Society that he arrived
 at Muscat in Oman on May after a l periIous trip through the interior i Arabian deserts.
 only meagre details of the trip have been received by the society but these give the members reason
 for blieving that the exploring eX-
 petition has been highly successful
 f The explorer left Copenhagen last I November. but his real explorations ' did not begin until he reached Basra
 from Bagdad in January of this year
 Through the assistance of the Val
 of Rasra he was able to continue his
 journey to Koweit, where he was
 I the guest of the regnt Shek Mob lrek I At this place he made his final plans I for his dash across the unknown de- ! serts. He chose to go through the , desert via the oases of f-Mereida an( q Riad. in the heart of Central Arabia inhabited by the Wahabis, and thence eastward through the oasis of Mo fuf to the coast. That he succeeded in this dangerous plan is indicated by his messages to the society The explorer in the message re ceived speaks of the excellent result which he obtained from his antropo
 logical, geological and botanical ob
 servations. M Raunkiaer is now pro , ceedfng to Bombay, whence he vii sail for Copenhagen, where he Is eN pected this month.