The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-14
OSIRIS LEGEND IS
 BEING PENETRATED
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN klNG-GOD TEMPLE AND TOMB BEING
 EXPLORED BY BOY FORCES.
Story of the King Who Met Sudden Death by having cunningly Wrought Coffin to Enter at Banquet.

Nayille, the Egyptologist who has been directing 600 men and boys i1 excavations to unearth the temple and tomb of Osiris, has returned to his chair at the University of Geneva elated with the belief that he has penetrated to the actual funeral cham Der of the ancient Egyptian king-god and that another winters work which is already assured under auspices of the Anglo-American Egyptian Explora- tlcn Company. will bring to light i'm. portant details bearing upon the his tory of Osiris.
 The legend is that Osiris, a wise and beneficent king who reclaimed the Egyptians from savagery, met a sud den and premature death by the schemng of his wicked brother Seth. who, with 72 fellow conspirators, ia Nited Osiris to a banquet and induced him to enter cunninglylwrought cof- fin They shut down the lid and cast the chest and its body into the Nile. Isis, faithful wife of the beloved king recovered the body.
 The legend continues that Seth and his fellow conspirators then cut the body into IA pieces, and scattered the parts all over Egypt-each piece be- ing entombed by worshippers of Osi- ris-which accounts for the numerous tombs to him. The faithful Isis, how ever regathered the pieces and brought them back to the Temple of Abydos.
 This temple, where Professor Ma vihe has been conducting the excava- tions, is, he is sure, the true burial place of Osiris. The place is about eqnidistant between Cairo and Assou- an, in the desert, about eight miles westward from the Nile.
 Professor Naville believes this tenn pie is older even than the Pyramids Relating some details of his work to the Associated Press correspondent at Geneva, he said:
 We worked from December 24, 1913, to March II, 1914, and during the eleven weeks we experienced some anxiety and excitement. At nine yards under the soil we found a large building constructed of granite and very hard red sandstone. This ed ifice is divided into three naves, which are surrounded by 16 large cells all identical in size and shape. They have no inscriptions on the walls WDnfnVaT fINbfG ha building is very ancient as the walls of more modern edifices in Egypt are covered with inscriptions.
 "ll front of the cells is a stone plat form supported by ten huge blocks of granite. Skirting this platform we came upon the reservoir-or well of Osiris which undoubtedly is that mentioned by the Roman historian Strabo. While the reservoir has not yet been explored it is probable that it's waters had been popular at one time for their supposed curative pow CTS.
 "On the opposite side of the temple to that where we entered we found the buriaI place of Osiris, as the Book of the Dead and the inscription ol the walls of the funeral chamber, twenty yards by five, proved to us beyond all doubt. You can imagine that we were greatly delighted at the discovery.
 We found also that in some remote past Egyptian thieves had been at work there. They had entered the funeral chamber by piercing a hole in the wall, but of course it will never be known what the thieves carried away. Did they take the sarcophsgus of Osi- ris? All Egpytolovsts in the course of their researches in the ruins of Egypt have come across traces of thieves who were considered to be the cleverest h the then known word. They formed themselved into associa- tions and gangs with the special ob- ject of robbing tombs, as it was the ancient custom among Egyptians to bury valuables with their dead. There was a supervision of the tombs, but this the thieves seem to have avoid ed easily, judging by their exploits.
 "The whole of the vast edifices we discovered Is in bad state of ru- ins, because it and its surroundings were used as quarry in the time of Ramises H."
 Professor Naville, who is an elderly mal, insisted upon paying honor to his 'brave assistants" Messrs. Vain wright and Gibson of London. and Thomas Wittemore of Tufts College, Massachusetts.
 One of the first things that Gen eral Lyautey, the French resident gen eral of Morocco, did in taking office was to prohibit the sale of absint1e. This measure, aimed at both the French troops of occupation and the natives, considerably affected busl- ness interests and steps were taken to try and stir up movement or opposition.
 An old Moor to whom trader tried