The Washington times., 1922-07-30

Great Bronze Ring Of Pharaoh, Z
Picked Up in the Ashes Of N
Carehemi.h Just Where He
Dropped 1t $500 Year. Ago.
~ ELICS - weapons, arrow
heads, broken shiclds-of IA
a battle that the Prophet "
jeremiah predicted have been I
unearthed by British Museum
explorers.
Even more remarkable than
that, traces of the fierce fight
ing have been found just as it The Seal
came to an end In the days of Show
jeremiah, $500 years ago.
But equally interesting Is the
fact that the very ring of the
Egyptian Pharaoh Necho was found
among the ruins just as he had dropped
it in the battle of Carchemish, where he
was disastrously defeated by the Baby
lonians. 1t Is heavy bronze ring bear
ing the mysterious symbols used by every
Egyptian Pharaoh and known as a car
touche. 1t was used 10 seal State docu-
ments, letters and orders.
The great Pharaoh appears TO have re-
treated in such hurry that he did not
have time to pick up his ring.
While an enormous mass Of material
has been recovered from the ancient civ,
ilizations that surrounded Palestine in
Biblical times, H. is not often that
records Of an event actually described
in the Bible are found. Il must
be remembered that Palestine was a very
poor and crude place compared to the
great powers OF Babylonia and Egypt
which overshadowed it, and that the
events which seem so important in Bible
history did not appear so to the contem-
porary scribes who recorded the deeds of
the mighty Kings Of Babylon and the
Pharaohs of Egypt on stone and clay
That is one reason why the new discov.
cries, which are proved to be clearly con-
nected with an event fully described in
the Bible, are of extraordinary interest.
The place now excavated is the ancient
city of Carchemish, on the Euphrates
River. 1t was the scene of battle in
604 B. c., that was foretold by the
Prophet Jeremiah in the forty-sixth chap
ter of his book.
What Jeremiah foretold Immediately
came to pass. The Pharaoh Necho, of
Egypt, and the inhabitants of Carche-
mish who were in league with him, were
utterly crushed at this place by Nebu-
chadnezzar, King of Babylon, sometimes
called "Nebuchadrezzar." Some Of the
most striking verses about Carchemish in
the forty-sixth chapter Of Jeremiah are
as follows:
"The word of the Lord which came to
Jeremiah the Prophet against the Gen.
tiles;
Against Egypt, against the army Of
Pharaoh-Necho, King of Egypt, which
WIS ry the River Euphrates in Carche-
", ', which Nebu- -chad-rezzar, King of
F 1 /. smote in the fourth year of
J -, kim, the son of Josiah, King of
J",'2h.
"Ordcr ye the buckler and shield, and
Irai" near to battle.
HARNESS the horses; and get up, yc
horse ,~n. and stand forth with your he'll
nc's. fvbsh III" spears, and put on the
h,;.: '"hn"s.
"Vhcrcforc have seen them dismayed
and turned away back? and their mighty
ones are beaten down, and are fed apace,
W. look not back for fear was round
a ,"t saith the Lord.
"1et not the swift flee away, nor the
mighty man escape; they shall stumble,
49, I'll toward the north by the River
EuHhrates.
"The daughter of Egypt shall be con-
founded; she shall be delivered into the
h:.nd of the people of the north.
"The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
saith: Behold, will punish the multitude
Of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with
their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh,
and all them that trust in him:
"And will deliver them into the hand