AK< HOROLOGY. 



ta *- l -?fttt 



of 



committee was organized, generous subscrip- 

 tions were received, and arran^-m, m- were 



and at olJwr 



WOT* 



al Iliwlik and in S,*in. 





ofYtsyon 



hi-tnf 41 fn**i thick MAT 



1MMU ^W s^s^Pw sMSOBf eis^p^p 



of Are, handful* of 



Mid btta of melted iron, and diverging 



!, : ..'-. with 



probably, an 



i of victory ia theatrical contests. The 

 to bt UM stsffsobata of a torn- 



The aioafSJttoos at Argos promise to be of 

 grMt importance, and the structures uncovered 

 hart rvodily asromed larger proportions. Arti- 

 olesof art and handicraft hare been found 15 

 r the previous vear's level. Near a 

 I Cyclopean wall were dug up large 



JJSJM of pottery. iron, and bronze, a marble 

 bmd of the Roman period, and 

 MdMQ of Greek sculpture, the head 

 Ihfcitiii from the metope* of the second 

 pfe, bmring the characteristics of the Polycl 



Many objects in iron 

 well as bronse and even st 

 liiay objeol was a 

 test tag and afoot in 



an int. 



u , 



of the Polyclctan 

 were disclosed, as 

 stone implements. A 



of iron al* ut 5 

 which proved 



, 



to be a mass of iron spears bound together with 

 band, of irun at both ends. The west building 

 partly excavated in the previous year, was en- 

 tirely uncovered, and showed a structure with 

 S fjhsjHMOL colonnade, and central court Au- 



i to it was another long building at which 

 fcsjDd the bJOof*mUs*l 



head, 

 objects in mid and silver, and a silver ring 



erias made at east end of the west bo ikUnff 

 as being very rich in number and 

 rising every material-obi* 

 fold. lead. iron, bone, ivory, and clay-and 



" -Id 4pigraphv. art. mythology. 

 At another part of the build 

 -, MfMBsjM poriod 

 well preserved. Great 

 ww attached to the discovery of 2 bee- 

 OCM of which had been the reoository 



eariy graves of the 

 iOMO? them well 



for at loasti 



> of the eartiosi type, a chain wit h 



* ' L. -.1 



mn OTiMHHHs% % mull* wnoriri, 

 M Ivory n , number of heads; while 



the other contain*.! a Urge number of beads 

 M whorls^ but only 1 complete vase, and a 



to the second tennis of Bon at Argos, which is 

 in artistic importance only 



MM* 



7~A Am*rifa* .SrAoo/. A congress 

 'sand arvhvologuit. 

 n Uw winter of If^H-'M raeom- 

 an American school 



at BOOM, on aolandmdar 

 Ann 



**su[*isz.-Kyz 



r f,.r <>|H>l)illg the M-ixK.l. )!!!.: W il- 



linmii. Halo as dirwtor and P : h- 



iiiK'hatn. Jr., as araociati :id- 



emio year 1895-*90. 'I'll-- *>i,j.-cts <>f th- s<-hool 

 will be to promote the study of such Mit>j ts as 

 . lit. Tat urc as bear on customs ami invi- 

 tations; inscriptions in Latin and in tin- Italic- 

 dialects ; Ijitin |.al:i-., k 'ra|.li} ; tin- t(.|i<.^raj.hy 

 and untKjinti irchs3ology of 



lit Italy (lull 1 Of 



the rarly rhn.-tian. nirli:i-\al. ami Krnaissjn 

 periods. It will funu-h n-pilnr instruct imi and 

 piiilancr -r all nf tli-r lirld-. will 



jige original research IT exploration. an<l 

 will co-operate with tin- An-li.-n. logical Institute 

 of Amenca, with which it i- atlilim 



I L- |.1i.in. /, ' nown 



/?<iee. The work of Mr. W. M. I lin.l. r 

 during the season of 1895 and that <>f t! 

 Man n-x-arch ai'cuiiut under tin- Immediate Q> 



n of Mr. l^iiilM-ll were carrii-d on in tin- 

 same district and \v. n- much int<r\\M\ , n \\jth 

 each other, so that it is not always easy t.. <\\- 

 tinguMi in the ini|Nirtant discoveries that were 

 made to which party the chief credit should be 

 given. <>n the top of a plateau, according to 



I't-tri.'s a< 'tint, between Ball as and Nega- 

 deh, about 80 miles north of TheU-s. 1,400 feet 

 above the Nile, the home of pala-<*lithic man 

 was found. Large mas>ivc Hints, beautifully 

 worked and unworn, wen 1 of the same 



forms as those found in the river gravels of 



KM ami Knxland. Their antiquity is sh<> 

 liy their dark staining, while other "flints five 

 thousand years old by the side of them si. 

 hardly a tinjje of weathering. Hc-ide- these 

 other flints of a later palaeolithic type were found 

 imlM'dded in the ancient ^ravels'of the foil 

 high Nile. A town of historical times Nul.t. 

 found on the edge of the dev,. r t adjoining a 

 small temple, proved to beac.-nt.-r f tin- \v 

 ship of i 1 -.bed god Set. This t..\\n is 



;ed to in Juvenal in a passage which was 

 hitherto obscure, but is now explained by the 

 discovery; and besides its classical Interest it 

 preserves the r many successive ages, 



furnishini;. in different layers, potteries of U 

 fourth, twelfth, eighteenth, and nineteenth dy- 

 nasties. Leas than a quarter of a mil.- from 

 this place lay another site of a town presenting 

 special features that marked it as i 

 but a* ha the home of another race or 



people, whose pn-*en<-e in Kgyi.t had not been 

 known bef.-re. or even Mispected. In the inonu- 

 UM-nt- and tombs of this j.eoj.le r,f a hitherto un- 

 known ra... nothing was found that was com- 

 mon to the 1 or was like anything 



m : and the region in which 

 rand extends over more than 100 mil-s of 

 country, from Abydne to Gbelen. At 

 when- the principal researches were carried on 

 U'twcefi Halla.s and Negadeh. near the middle of 

 the dlstiiot. those r urred in the im- 



mediate vicinity of I.-vptian : tombs 



with fatten, beads, and scarabs of the fourth, 

 twelfth. eighteenth, and nineteenth . .-x- 



. like those found similarly dated in northern 

 Egypt, yet wholly distinct "from them. The 

 men of this race, Mr. Petrie says, were " very 



