Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-07
kyptologists Also Discover
 Reservoir Older Than
 Pyramids.
VIDENCE OF THIEVES
IOfessOr of Geneva University Says
 4 Vine Yards Under Soil Great Dis-
 toyery Was Made-Wiil Return to Pursue Investigations.
lRY La Racontense.)

Paris. June 6.-Professor Edouard
 ayille of Geneva university, we'll
 own Egyptologist, has just return
 from Egypt and today gave some
 teresting details of his discoveries,
 hjch include a reservoir more an-
 ent than the pyramids and the tomb
 the god Osiris, king of the dead. he professor was assisted in his in- bstgations by Thomas Whittemore
 Taft college, Boston, and by two
 ondon antiquarians.
 The discoveries were made at Aby- bs the old Egyptian Abut, which is
 tuated halfway between Cairo and
 ssuan, about eight miles away from he Nile, in the desert.
 The ground l went over was not a sense exactly new" said the pro- bssor, "for in 1903 Professor Find rs-Petrie and Miss Murray, of Uni ersity college, London, had made in Bresting discoveries at Abydos, but I enetrated farther during my two eX- editions in 1912-13 and 1913-14.
 We worked from December 24, 913, to March II, 1914, and during he eleven weeks we experienced ome anxiety and excitement. At line yards under the soil we found a arge building constructed in granite Ind very hard red sandstone. This dihce is divided into three caves, which are surrounded by sixteen arge cells all identical in size and |hape, and containing no inscriptions bn the walls whatever. This latter act proved that the building was Pery ancient, as the walls of the nore modern edifices in Egypt are lowered with inscriptions. In front pf the cells is a stone platform sup ported by ten huge blocks of granite, and the platform skirts the reservoir which we have not yet explored. Tt is very probable that the waters pf the reservoir had curative virtues the popular belief.
 What Did Thieves Steal! "On the oposite side to which we entered, We found the burial place |of Osiris as the Book of the Dead and |lhe inscription on the walls of the |luneral chamber twenty yards by five yards proved to us beyond all doubt we found also that in some remote past Egyptian thieves had entered |the chamber of Osiris by piercing a aole in the wall, but it will of course |oe never known what the thieves car rled away. Did they take the sar- cophagus of Osiris?
 According to our observations the temple and tomb of Osiris was modi- ned' and perhaps enlarged, by Seti aoout the year 13 B. c. Ancient le- sehds state that the body of Osiris was dismembered every night by his enemies and that the members were tansported to different parts of Egypt aad, further, that his sons gathered ,Ae members every morning ant ulought them back to the temple O aoydos. For this reason perhaps Mere are supposed to be severa wlnOs Of Osiris in Egypt, but th'
 
 real one is at Abydos, we are sure
 During my next visit to the scene ul our discoveries in the coming win .el l snail be able to study matters as a,ore closely, and hope to be able tt .o'ain more definite details about thu u. ,uino Of Osiris and the ancient resor .oi Tn the temple, which as I hav' oldteQ before iS nrOha h1v mora an S'.,lt m, than the pyramids themselves. :. .osifls, it may be recalled, was on' ~ ~ lne principal Egyptian deities, ant .ne son of earth and heaven. Afte war waged with his brother Set .ts1presenting the eternal conflict be lneeh good and evil, he was slain s;.. ns rose again, however, and had do u,oh ~al,, over the dead in the neither 1d "vrld Of Amenti. His wife was Isi sr s.ne dawn) and his son Horus (th sun m its full strength).