
Bulletin 
of the 
Liverpool Museums 
UNDER THE CITY COUNCIL. 
Edited by H. O. Forbes, LL.D., Director of Museums. 

Vou. IL. JANUARY, 1900. Nos, 3 AND 4. 

On a collection of Stone Implements in the Mayer 
Museum made by Mr. H. W. Seton=Karr, in 
Mines of the Ancient Egyptians discovered 
by him on the Plateaux of the Nile Valley. 
By Henry O. Forses, LL.D. 
In the year 1897 a large collection of flint implements was added to the 
Mayer Museum by purchase from Mr. Heywood Seton-Karr, who discovered 
them in the deserts of Egypt in 1896. This gentleman, well known as a big- 
game hunter in Africa, had, during the previous year or two, discovered in 
Somaliland a number of stone implements of “ palolithic” types. And it 
was as he was passing through Egypt, in 1898, on his way back to the 
Eastern Horn of Africa, in quest of further evidences of early man, that he 
by chance heard through the Bedawin in his employment of the occurrence, 
in the deserts east of the Nile, of objects similar to those he was in quest of. 
The truth of this information was to some extent confirmed by Johnson 
Pasha, the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department in Cairo, who 
had some ten years before picked up a specially fine axe-shaped tool and 
a few other implements in the district indicated by the Bedawin, near to 
what he understood from his guides to be ancient workings for gold. 
Mr. Seton-Karr, on proceeding to explore the eastern desert, was 
successful in finding, in one of the tributary wadys of the Nile—the Wady 
el Sheikh—not only large accumulations of implements, but in discovering 
also—what was previously unknown—many mines or quarries whence the 
flint had been extensively extracted by the ancient Egyptians for the 
purpose of being manufactured. These mines proved to be also the chief 
workshops where the implements were at least roughly fashioned, if not 
finally finished and perfected. 
In the following year (1896) Mr. Seton-Karr, on re-visiting this part of 
Egypt, found another mine and workshop in the Wady Sojoor, round which 
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