The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
VALLEY OF KINGS
TALK new STORY
Long Dead Emerge AS
Real Live
People
BY MAX BOYD
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I. formation for psychologists about
wars. kings, ceremonials and Ia
borers thousands of years ago
Even the artisans who built the
ancient tombs and who lived Tor
generations in 4 village OF their
T.. own in the "Valley of Kings are
: beginning to emere under pattern
investiation as real people with
= problems and hopes Of their own.
> Bernard Bruyere, archaeologist
for the French Institute in Cairo,
finds there were about 100 fami-
h. lies in the ancient walled village
900 to 1900 years before Christ
Then Egypt was a vast empire
and the Pharaoh's armies cam
apigned from Upper Nubia to the
E~uphrates. Many Of the workers
were syrians, Libyans and MI
bans captured Ii these cam
paigns.
Once sent to the village to live,
a finally and its descendants U.s.
ually were forced to reside there
for centuries. On their days off,
workers were permitted to dig
tornbs Of their own in the cliff be-
. hind their homes and to built tiny
sc pyramids to make their future
graves.
. Nubian policemen guarded the
gates of the wall.
The men who lived in the VII
. LACE were masons, carpenters and
ether craftsmen. Their names
were painted on doorWays or on
. the stone bases of roof columns,
, and their tools and plans - cut on
: stone or pottery-were left among
. the ruins.
= Before each house was an open
a. kitchen, with a masonry over
. and a bread-working stone. Most
= Of the homes were built on top OF
: tombs dug into the face OF the
=. cliff by earlier generations. Many
. families used these old tombs for
: storage or living space. Some re-
g. moved the mummies that had
p been buried in them; others
: pushed them into a corner and
.. Lived alongside.
$ On the gates of the wall that
: surrounded the village was the
p. name of Thutmose /. He was a
: powerful Pharaoh who conquered
: IInner Nubia. auelled revolts
p. against the Egyptians in Syria,
. slaughtered a great number OF
> Asiatics in battle and erected a
/. stone boundary marker on the
. Euphrates.
Outside the main gate was a
d. water tank. Glazed jars found be-
. size the tank bear the names o.
the empire-builder, Thutmose III,
. and the beautiful and brilliant
. queen, Hatshepsut.
: Hatshepsut built great temples
. and raised gigantic obelisks to
h. perpetuate her name. When Tnut-
NOSE III finally gained control,
t. the Queens name and figure we're
s. chopped from the temples and he
covered the name on her obelisks
l.. with masonry.
: The broken stones OF eleven
: long : lost monuments OF ancient
q, Egypt have been found by work
= men burrowing into a gigantic py-
: lon at the Temple of Karnaks to
. repair its weakened foundations.
D.. Henri Chevrier, French architest,
: is patiently reconstructin the
. monuments one by one.
AS rapidly as staff and supplies
= permit, each side of each stone is
p. photographed. Then the pictures
. to to MIR. Chevrier's drafting
: hoard, where he tried to fit them
together.
: The rebuilding of one temple
. has been completed. 1t took a
year to figure Oh: where the piece
= should go and six months to put
. them together. Mr.. Chevrjer says
the result is the oldest complete
. religious monument in all Egypt.
= It is a small temple to the god Of
fertility, Amon-Min, believed to
have been built about 1900 years
: before Christ during the reign OF
. King Seostris.
.. Another monument from the
> time of the Pharaoh Amenhotep
I. about 1850 years before Christ,
is in process Of reconstruction. It
includes a striking relief of the
sacred barque of the god Anon,
which Mr.. Chevrier says is the
. Oldest picture Of the boat ever
found.
The Temple of Karnak is being
p. repaired. 1t was the particular
temple Of Anon, god of the fabu-
. lous Egyptian capital which the
&. Greeks called Thebes, whose re-
: mains dot the landscape of Luxor
: ard the plain across the Nile.
e Just outside Karnak, another
= ancient temple is being excavated
u. by Egyptian workers under the
h. direction of Clement Robichon.
= representing the French Institute
. in Cairo. 1t is the Temple of Mon
f. tou, first god Of Thebes.
Within a few years the world
-. may know more about the ideal
: istic Pharaoh, Akhnaton, who
" $500 years ago conceived the idea
: of a single beneficent god and
q. prohibited worship of the many
. other dieties OF ancient Egypt.
. Architect Chevrier some time
. ago found at Karnak a corner of
: temple constructed by Akhnaton
: to Atom. Now he has DEVELOPED
d. a plan to excavale the remainder
. in about two years.
=. Fifty-two statues of Akhnaton
. were found by Chevrier, who has
= kept four of the huge, bizarre
-. carvings in his workshop near the
e. Giggings.
= Animation was described by
: the late James H. Breasted, of the
. Oriental Institute of the Univer.
. sity of Chicago, as 1.-The first in.