New Britain herald., 1926-02-15
OFFERS Sl0,OOO,OOO FOR GREAT MUSEUM
John D. Jr, Makes OYertures
 to King Of Egypt

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 New York, Feb. IS Up,-John D, Rockefeller. Jr., has offered to Kin Faud and tho Egyptian nation the sum Of slo,000000 for tho erection and maintenance in Cairo Of n great museum and archaeological institute,
 .This fact has become known through a premature announcement ot the gift by Professor James II, Breasted of the University Of Chica- go, who at present is In Egypt and who will hc chairman Of the trustees oS the new museum If King Faud accepts certain conditions for tho gift which Mr. Rockefeller desires 10 impose. The King Is said 10 haV" been unable 10 acquiescc in these because of tho insistence on the part Of extreme Egyptian nationaistS that control be vested in the Egp- tan government Mir. Rockefeller Jr.. 1t Is asserted, desires an Ameri- can directorate. The announcement that Prof. Brcastcd's statement waS premature was made by q represen- tatlve of Mir. Rockefeller. Jr, in New York.
 Tho negotiations have been in progress since last fall. Tho pro- posed museum would house the marvellous treasures which have been found In Egypt, including those taken from the tomb of Tut-Ankh- Amen al Luxor and other places in the land of Pharaohs. One Of Mir. Rockofeller's neGotiators with King Faud is now on his way 10 the United States with message from the king which possibly may be an acceptance of the gift.
 Mir. Rockefeller has never been in Egypt, but in recent years he has been intensely interested in the eX' i cavation of that country. He is said to have followed the avidity the 1 excavation of the tomb of Tut Ankh' l Amen and to have recognized, be cause Of the public interest on tn subject, new educational value il archaeology. During the past fiV' or six years he has made large gift gor archaeological research in Greece
 Egypt, Palestine and other places ol the Mediterranean.
 Mr. Rockefeller's wife Is an en
 thusiast on Egyptian art objects an'
 is said to be an expert on styles am
 periods of Egyptain workmanship
 Somo of her Egyptian bronzes wcr recently used by the Metropolitan Museum Of Art here in demons'rat ing a new process for restoring cor rodcd bronzes.
 Formerly Mir. Rockefeller's th"or of giving from the worlds greates fortune vas that Of producing tn greatest direct benefit 10 mankind he has now added to this theory tn aim of widening the boundary 0 human knowledge, it was on thi principle, it is said, that made hi ,acnnt gifts Of $20, ,0o0 to finance
 flight to the North Pole. This wa
 his first gift either to aviation c Polar research.
 It is the opinien of archaeologisf | that. notwithstanding many mu | soums are filled with Egyptian ar l only d small portion Of that conn 1 fry's story has been told and that tn | Rockefeller gift will. if it is accept ed 90 long way toward bringln to light further marvellous thing still remaining in the reritabl treasure house. and also facts abol
 inc human race from about the yea l5,on0 E. C., to the time of Homo
 and Hcrodtus,
 ) One of the great incentives archaeological research Is for proc ! establishing the real cradle of civil
 2atiou. whether along the Nile or 1T
 Euphratcs.
 Prof. Breasted is noted ss q ! Egyptologist. He had an active pa II in the excavations at Luxor and pr | yiouely successfully explored Egy' l tinn tombs. Recently he began T | exploration of the square mile co II stiuting Armgeddon. IL is repolt' | that Mr. Rockefeller is financing h | work. on which active Opera'io will begin shortly.
 II In making hi% premature q II uounromont in Cairo. Profess II Breasted said the offering of Il l great sum to King l'au1 hy \ Il Rockolcllcr was due to the fact th | Mir. Rockefeller had been moved JI thr fact that the whole world, csI @ cially the new world of the w' . owes Egypt T cultural debt. |
 magnitude of which has been
 croasing revealed by the extraordi
 ory archaeological and scientific
 vcstications Of recent y"ars.'
 II" added that in offering to es'a
 hsh a research institute in conjur ion with the new and imposing m Y yo,nn, Mir. Rockefrllrr felt that fac . tics would be afforded and not or
 10 scholars from throughout [
 world 10 obtain fuller knowledge in" history ot civilization but to young Egyptians desiring 10 rec"!
 tle hest scientific training as hist (