Evening star., 1926-02-15
JOHN D., JR., OFFERS
$10,0D0,0Q0MUSEUM
Rockefeller Proffer to Egypt
Would Aid Archaeological
Research.
Ry the Associated press

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, February l5.-~John
n. Rockefeller. tr., has offered King
Fuad and the Egyptian nation the
sum or $40, 900. 900 for the erection and
maintenance In Cairo of a great mu'
scum and archaeological institute.
This fact has become known
through announcement In Cairo by
Prof James H. Breasted of the Uni
versity OF Chicago. who will be chair
man Of the trustees of the new mu-
scum II King F'uad accepts certain
conditions for the gift, which Mr..
Rockefeller desires to impose.
In New York an agent of Mr..
Rockefeller characterized the, an
nouncement as premature.
Desires American Directorate.
Extreme Egyptian nationalists wish
that control be vested In the Egyptian
government, Mr.. Rockefeller. 1t is
asserted. desires an American di-
rectorate.
Negotiations have been In progress
since last Fall. The museum would
house marvellous treasures which
have been found in Egypt. including
those taken from the tomb or Tut
Ankh-Amen at Luxor and other
places.
Mr. Rockefeller has never been In
Egypt. but In recent years he has
been intensely interested In the ex
cavations in that country. He fol
lowed with avidity the excavation OF
the tomb OF Tut.Ankh Amen and
recognized. because of the public In
terest on the subject. n new educa-
tional value in archaeology. During
the last five or six years he has made
search in Greece. Egypt. Palestine md
other places on the Mediterranean.
Mr. Rockefellers wife In an en-.
thusiast on Egyptian art objects.
Some of her Egyptian bronzes were
recently used by the Metropolitan
Museum of Art here In hemonstra ting
a new process for restorinG corroded
bronzes.
Formerly Mr.. Rockefeller's theory
of giving from the worlds greatest
fortune was that OF producing the
greatest direct benefit to mankind.
He has now added to this theory the
aim Of widening the boundary of hu-
man knowledge 1t was on this prin-
ciple that he made his recent gift
of $4,000 to finance flight 10 the
either to aviation or polar research.
1t ia the opinion Of archeologists g
that, Notwithstanding museums are
filled with Egyptian art. only small
portion OF that country's story has
been told. and that the Rockefeller
gift will go long way toward bring
ing to light further marvellous things
remaining in the veritable treasure
house. and also facts about the hn-
man race from about the year l5.ao0
B. c. to the time of Homer and Herod-
otus. One of the great incentives to
archaeological research is for proofs
establishing the real cradle Of civiliza-
ton. whether along the Nile or the
Euphrates. -
Financing Other Work.
Prof. Brea sted had an active part
in excavations at Luxor and previous
ly successfully explored egyptian
tombs. Recently he began. the .ex-
ploration Of the square Mite eun stit,it.
ing Armageddon. 1t is reported that
Mr.. Rockefeller is financing this work
In Cairo Prof. Breasted said the of.
fering of the great sum to King Fuad
by Mr.. Rockefeller was because Mr..
Rockefeller had been moved by the
fact that the whole world. especially
the New World of the West owes
Egypt cultural debt the magnitude
Of which has been creasinglv re.
vealed by the extra ordinary archeolog
ical and scientific investiga tions of re-
cent years
He added that in offering to esta h.
lish a research institute. in conjunc-
tion with the new and imposing mu.
scum. Mr.. Rockefeller felt that facili.
ties would be afforded not only to
scholars throughout the world to OBJ.
tain fuller knowledge OF the history
Of civilization. but to all young Egyp
tians desiring to receive the best scien.
tific training as historians of their own
extra ordinary land.