The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
Find Helen Of Troy Genuine
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The face that launched a thousand ships" in the Trojan wars, Helen of Troy, was no figment of the imagina- tiOn of Homer.
 Dr. James H. Breasted, head of the Oriental institute at the University of Chicago. just back from Egypt. has de- ciphered ancient manuscripts of date contemporary with the destruction of Troy, and finds the fair Helen was a real person, says the Boston Globe.
 This is the first time a man of science has admitted belief in what has been termed a Greek myth. Professor Breasted says further that many other mythical persons actually lived in the dim past. Hercules, for example, was, he says, king of an ancient BabylOnian city.
 s Asia Minor Finds Supplemented
 Professor Breasted, who knows con siderable about King Tut's tomb, hay ing recently returned from the opening of the sarcophagus of that pharaoh, de- clares that in ancient manuscripts taken from the tomb there have been discovered documents supplementing re- cent discoveries in Asia Minor, showing that Helen was real, and throwing con- siderable light on Grecian history.
 Lengthy accounts of the Trojan WAITS were found by the professor. This evil dence, engraved upon beaten gold and readily legible, which is being trans lated by him, also will amplify the his tory of Egypt now known, he says.
 The investigation of BabylOnian his tory," explains Professor Breasted, "is disclosing an unprecedented series of unexpected revelations.
 Take the case of the mythical hero, Gilgamesh, the original of the Euro- pean Hercules, who bids fair to emerge at last as a remote city king of early Babylonia who gained a reputation for his prowess in war until be became the typical and proverbial strong man of all ages.
 'sThe crowning disclosure. in this series of revelations has come from Asia Minor. Several years ago a German assyriologist, Hugo Winckler, visited the mounds of Boghaz in Central Asia Minor.
 'As he walked over the ruins he kicked up several cuneiform tablets lying practically on the surface. Below were piled the clay tablet archives. Some of these tablets had been lying in the ruins of the capital of the Hittite empire since the middle of the second thousand years before. Christ. The re- suit has been the decipherment of an entire group of Hittite dialects.
 These investigations were inter rupted by the great, war. Since Winck- ler's death the progress of examining this great body of archives has been nnavoidably slow. One of these tablets reports n war of Aureus, king of Achaia, against the king of Carias about 12JO B, C.:
 Record Old As Events"
 sThere can be no doubt but that in this tablet we have a contemporary reference to the cycle of the Trojan wars. This record must be regarded as an irreproachable historical source as old as the events which it records. Thus out of the oriental background of Greek history in Asia Minor comes a written document confirming a Greek tradition born in an age when the Greeks them selves still lacked writing.
 Because writing reaches back in the Orient by almost three thousand years more than it does in Greece, we are, therefore, able to confirm Greek tradi- ton out of contemporary written sources.
 ? The HOmeric songs of the Trojan wars can now no longer be regarded as exclusively literature of purely legend ars c0nteEit; the Greek tradition Uf sub stantiaf Egyptian contributions to knowledge can no longer be rejected as without foundation. N
 A Further Yield Expected
 There is every possibility that the tombs of Egypt may yield further scien- tific treatises, and we cherish the hope that the 8 or 40 chest& boxes and easkets still lying in the innermOst chambers of King Tut-ankh-Amen with their seals unbrOken may contain many more documents"
 Professor Breasted declares the ancient documents found in the tomb of King Tut last winter amplify every bit of Egyptian history now existing.