The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-07


twenty years In dclvirg into the hid
den mysteries ot ancient Egypt aud
Ithiopln.
by T. n HOLLINGSWORTIL
Tho tomb Of tho king who prom.
iscd the prophet Isaiah aid whom .
Judol Was threatened by the AS /
syrians, about seven huudrVI years !
before the Christian era, has been /
found. Tho discovery brings 10 the |
fore one Of the most interesting cpl |
sodos in the world9 history ana II |
establishes the identity Of n ruler |
who stood ready 10 perform a Hcry-
ice similar to that Of tho United |
States In the World war.
King Ho2okiah. when he heard |
that King Sennacherib Of Assyria |
was at the gates Of Jerusalem, wna
a terribly frightened ruler. lie !
promptly sent for 1aalnh. the
prophet. and turned the situation
over TO him. II clearly was case
for a diplomat, not "a king. Isaiah
filled King Sennachcrih'a ambassa-
dors with wholesome fear OF trou-
bles in the near future and those
10 fan on their chlldroq's children,
and his parting shot was.
Behold | VIII Scnd blast upon
him. and be shall hear a rumor ana
return to his own land. and ! viii
cause him TO fan by the sword In
his own land"
Then the ambassadors return 10
King Sennachcrib, and I'm the mean
; time tho rumor OF the things Isaiah
had predicted was spread abroad In
tho land, and I'm tho 37th chapter
of Isaiah, ninth verse, IL thus re-
corded.
And he heard cay concerning
Tirhakah, king OF Ethiopia. And
ha II Ia N. t.l ff 4.
thee"
Now who was this king who stood
ready to take the field against the
most powerful and warlkc empire
of his day at tho bchest OF the
prophet Isaiah? To most Of US he
is no more than n queer conception
OF vowels and consonants and then
those seem 10 have been changed,
for modern scientists spell his name
Tirhaqua.
He probably was, In personal ap-
pearancc, rather below the height OF
men OF today very dark and heavy
featured; heavy shouldered. with
long arms well accustomed to tho
sword and javelin for he came from
n long line OF fighting forobears.
n His ancestors had been empire ateal-
Il ers rather than empire builders. and
even the powerful Egyptians fell be-
fore their might. when a dynasty
that lasted for long period was
established
unearthing of the tombs of these
Ethiopian rulers In the result of ten
years OF toll beneath the blazing sun
OF tho Upper Nile desert by Prof.
George a. ltcisucr ana his expcdi-
tion under the auspices of Harvard
university and tho Boston Museum
of Fine Arts.
The discovery of the tombs of 20
generations of Ethiopian kings and
the recovery from beneath the deep
~ drifted sands OF material buried
and forgotten for moro than two
thousand years make 1t possible to
write for the first time the history
of Ethiopia and its lost civilization.
These discoveries were made Mt Nap
alta, the ancient capital of Ethiopia
hut now called by the Arab name Of
Gebel Markal, Napata lies in the
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. at the south
ern end of Dongola province and at
the foot of the fourth cataract OF
the Nile. The royal cemeteries were
found outside OF the ancient city
one on the north at the modern VIII
lage Of III Kur'uw and the other on
the south at Nuri.
At the latter village the EgyptOlo-
K sists examined group OF pyramids.
which proved to be tho tumhs of the
T 26 kings and 80 queens of Ethiopia
from 600 TO 250 II. c., most of whose
names had been lost to human
knowledge. A few years earlier Pro-
fessor Rcisncr's party had reached
v the climax of the discoveries Of
royal tomhs in Ethiopil> by finding
the pyramids OF four kings of Egypt
-Piankhy, ShabaSa, Shabat0ka and
Tanutaman. They formed the TWEEN.
ty-fitth dynasty of Egypt called
Ethiopian by the ancient historians
because their home was at Napata
In the region then known as Ethio,
pia. They were the ancestors of The
kings buried at Nuu. This surpris
Ing discovery, the precursor oI
greater ones. was made In a ficl,
Of small pyramids so ruined and 3,
li inconspiCuous that Professor RoisnoI
regarded them as the very llst rcsor
In the search for the first dynast,
1t Ethiopia.
Excavations gradually uucovcrc,
he burial chamber Of TWhpuua. tn
Il king of Ethiopia mentioned i'm IA,
IN book of Isaiah of the Bible. who wa
one OF the five Ethiopian monarch
* who ruled over Egypt, and then ON
oy one uncovered the tumbs OF al
he other kings, queens ana prin
1esses Of Ethiopia for a period q
N more than four centuries an inter
yal as long AS that between the dis
;overy of America by Columbus am
Z he present day.
After these excavations and dis
. ,overies, at Nuri. four OF the great
ast kings of Ethiopia We're still lack
Il ng-kinEs who, like Tirhaqua, ha
'uled Egypt as well as Ethiopia. /
& he third year of search, these fou
Il Tings with their queens and indeed
{. Iix generations of their ancestor
we're found at the second royal cen
# ltery OF El Kur'uw, north of Napat'
1t was then found that the roy'
amily Of Ethiopia had sprung frol
tribe of Libyan nomads who ha
H 'ntered the province. then part {
X Egypt, about 800 II, c., becom
Egyptiani2ed, revolted from Egyl
md finally under Piankby. cor
iuered the older country. From tn
un-scorched place, five of the kinl
N IF Ethiopia had ruled Egypt an
W 900 miles OF the Nile valley. an