Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-11-23
RELICS of EGYPT
and RAEbYL.0NllA
Brought To Chicago University
Tell Story OF ;ScnEaecheribs
Defeat At ..JerussIem
o. Asaooiated Press)

G5y Associated Press)
Chicago, Nov .23-Fresh from
! the. Near East, 81 boxes of relics
of ancient Egypt~and Rabylonia |
are now being unpacked at the
University OF Chicago. They were
brought recently after an .adven-
turesome trip by DR.. ] .H.6Breast-
ed, professor of Oriental History
and Egyptology. In the Judg-
ment Of museum officials here,
they make the Oriental museum
at the University OF Chicago the
finest Of its kind in the Unied
States. The university professor
and his staff OF four were the first
white men to cross the Arab state
after it was proclaimed, going
from Bagdad to Aleppo. Atstincs
the expedition travelled at great
personal risk.
The traditional friendship of.
tue Arabs for the English has now
turned to hatred. Dir. Breasted
reported. This, he said, was due
Ito the British giving over Syria
to the French after they had
tpromised the Arabs their own
kingdom in recompense for the
help they gave the British against
the Turks.
British political agents were be-
ing murdered in Mesopotainia
while the University OF Chicago
expedition was in the country, DR..
Breasted said. He related that a
British colonel who knew the
ARABS intimately was later killed
at the identical camping place the
University party had stopped at a
short time before. :.
"The English in Mesopotania IS
: however. the greatest blessing
3 that ever came to the country,
) DIR. Breasted said. "It is accom-
J plishing wonders in quoting the
turbulent Arabs and in bringing
in civilized conditions. Any one
who knows the Near. East cannot
3 fail to rejoice at the British occu
3 patton. and most OF all the arclIeo
Z ilogist.''
5 Notwithstanding this hostility
3 to the British, the party detcrm
3 med to push on without protec
) ton across thedeserts to the Ne
J, diterranean. They fortunatel,
g found the arabs friendly t.
e Americans.
8 One Of the prizes brought bacl
Z to the Chicago Oriental museum
e is an Assyrian prism chroniclln!
. the destruction Of Sennecharib,
s army before Jerusalem. Ihi
g great Assyrian king had carried
g host against Jerusalem and soTel
8 troubled Hezekiah, king OF judah
9 1t is related in the Book of lsaia
& that Hezekiah sent to the prophe
8 Isaiah, that Isaiah prophesie
3 that Sennacharib would not ente
g jerusalem but would return t
q Assyria by the way that he came
s and that the Assyrian's army sui
g cred a great destruction.
g "This is six-sided prism cor
g tanning the royal allldlS Oh ''oCisiif
S charib," DIR. Breasted said.
g relates the chief campaigns OF II
8 western wars and chronicles tn
6 incident told in Isaiah. There
g a similar prism in the British mi
3 scum, but ours islthree years of
IS er, and it is the first in the Unite
~ States"
a flint knife blade with shal
edge, which.Dr Breasted chaFa
(: terized as the finest piece of.cth
ped stone known to man, is a.
other of the prizes of the collie
I: ton. Still another is small bit
!; vase from Egypt, where glass w
first used, which the 4 profess
r; showed the first artistic use MAJ
/: of glass.
i A picture of earlYB Egypt;
!! home life is afforded by a .,gro1
!! ,of 25 figures found in anaEgyptl'
/: tomb. Servants making abrea
!? washing, making music on dru
:: and doing other familiar thin
I; about thevhouse 1900 or SO
= years ago. go to make up the me
complete group of the kind, ut
:tsaid, that has ever been uncover