El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-14
ID STATUES Of
ANCIENT KINGS
RECOVERED
Pyramids and Buried Tenn
pies of Gebel Barkal Re
veal Valuable Relics.
BARES HISTORY OF
ANCIENT ETHIOPIA

discoveries which are said TO have
~ supplied much of.the hitherto OBJ
scure history Of ancient Ethiopia were
I made recently by the Egyptian expe-
dition sent by Harvard university and
: the Boston Museum of Fine Arts IN
, der the dictatorship OF Dr. George A.
Reisner. viii known as a Egyptolo-
gist
Among the more important finds
Lave been ten large statues Of kings
Of Ethiopia Five Of these were near
~ complete and five were lacking the
heads but il is believed these viii be
found. The expedition has also IN
covered the foundations or temples
built by Egyptian kings OF the 18th
dynasty and shown that the sphinxes
Of Amenophis III. ard other noun
uents Of that period found at BarkaI
felonZ to these temples and were not
brought in later times as some his
tOriaus have assumed Describing the
work. Dr. Rcisn.r said
"Gebel Barkal. which is in the dis
friCe Of NapaIa. lies go miles up the
NIle from Kerma IN the province or
nouCola- Napata was the capital OF
that kingdom OF Ethiopia whose armies
are mentioned in the old Testament
as the opponents Of NSsyria in the lat
Christ Gebel Barkal is an outstanding
table mountain of sandstone. visible
for q great distance. From the mo-
ment IL appears in the Egyptian in
scriptions II is marked as the Holy
Mountain. Its selection was no doubt
due TO its proximity to Napata, the
great city which must have lain on
both sides Of the Nile
Ruins Of Great City Found.
The extent Of the city has not yet
been determined but there are traces
Of ruined buildings on both sides OF
the river There are al least four
groups or pyramids. Ehat isl rovsI
cemeteries in the ueiEhborhOod. and
the two most distant ErOups are nearly
20 miles apart
our expedition reached Gebel Bar
l-al from Cairo on January "a last
w e worked there three months. en-
pioying force Of about 500 local
workmeu- and left just in time to
escape the hot weather Many peop1e
had worked on the pyramids hut no
one had Vet discovered the plan or
tire structures and no one knew how
70 get into them Fortunately AT Gebel
barkaI there were two completely
ruined pyramids OF small size which
offered the easiest opportunity Of solv-
ing this mysterE- We found in the
case OF each a stairway on the east
crn side leading down 10 chambers I'M
der the pyramid With this hint we
attacked the larger pyramids and with
IN a month We had found the entrances
OF p pyramids and had cleared the
burial chambers Of all but one
often PIundered for Geld
All the chambers had been re-
peatedly plundered in ancient DAYS for
gold Nevertheless We gathered
mass or material from which We were
q BILE 90 reconstruct the forms and
character Of the freater part of the
pottery implements. and other things
characteristic Of the period This re-
constructed group pointed clearly TO
the first century before Christ as the
time i'm which had lived those little
Kings who had built these monuments.
out IN view Of the scanty material for J
comparison this conclusion may be a
century away from the truth
Find Fragments Of Royal Statues.
Towards the end or February the J
iuI force was turned on the eXcava- [
ton or the temple area The back !
part o. the great temple and almost /
the whole Of the other temples were in 4
q seemingly hopeless state OF destruc- I
non Haif dozen expeditions had /
dug desultory trenches i'm these and ,
the natives had used them as quarries
FOR centuries In hunting for a suita- &
HE place to throw the refuse. we /
cleared space beside the pylon- We /
found ourselves. however. inside the /
temple enclosure and on the living
floor of the Neroitic period fabOut loo
f. c. To our great surprise in {
hole in this floor. we came on the edge |!
Of pile of fragments OF large royal !
statues OF the Ethiopian period
Investigation showed that there had
been "a great restoration Of the temple
after period Of destruction. suhse-
1uent TO 500 b O.. and that the statues
NJ the Ethiopian kings found broken !
during this restoration had been car !
ried out and thrown into this place I
The names Of four kings We're found !
The Biblical Tirhal1a. Amou-anal. his
son ESpalfa and "a later king named
Seula -amou-se1-en. only the statue OF
Espalta was complete.
Rich Find in second Dump
This find forced MS 20 plan some
lther way or attacking the excavation /
IF the great temple and 7 turned to the I
,~ea next to the mountain. thinking /
10 clear UP the rubbish strewn ground :
md pile the refuse beside the back part I
= the temple Tn the course Of this |
work we came on the foundation walls I
n two smaller temples and while
-learinC these. with no thought Of
.1ythinc but archa eolcgical results
vc suddenly came on the other ancient }
lump. over 100 meters from the first !
lump where We had found the statues
Here was the head OF the Tirhaka /
tatue. the crown and basis of the
Nmon-anal statue the body belonging I
o the head Of the Senka -amon-seken |
tatue and the bodies Of two statues I
# Tanut-amon. successor Of Tirhaka- |
Z was the most astonishing freak Of !
nance i'm my whole experience as an
Ncavator- AS a result We had ten
tatueS OF kings Of Ethiopia Of the |
Of r-rr I