:t 



Altai 



ull MM! pavwfal. with strong features ; a booked 

 WML h4Hs*eil bss*d. and bn.wn. wavy hair 

 ar (bowa by llMir osffissji MM! bodily remain*, 

 Ttoc* w ao irac* of tb* negro lyw apparent, 

 a*d in tmm*\ UMJ seee* cjaertv allil races of 

 t* UbfMt Md Amanu*. iW burial, are 

 ^Kft vtth tlw body contracted, and m* mum- 

 BftiM. lying wit* betid lo south nd face to 

 > of UMomUMUd bodies at 

 of tho graves have 



rial One Iar* and nn,.,rtant tomb 

 four akulb placed between stone vases 



, r - 

 3 



around the sides 

 at the ends and 

 certainly points 

 to MMmial anthropophagy. Other graves are 

 fbuad w** Us> tMHMSSpanUrd and sorted in 

 dssuff*, TW type of the graves is like tl. 

 tfcoseof UsteMt at Myoena open square pits, 

 with beams of wood. They are al- 



- . .' : 



UM race came from a rooky coun- 

 xre excavation could not be made except 

 in alluvium, TlMffraai development of the legs 



fn>m hilU, and not 



of chaniii*: the 



Metol and flint were both in use by 

 Copper adioi snow that wood was 

 y carved bulls* legs to a couch 

 UlwtraU UM work. Copper harpoons were imi- 

 from UM form in bone. Copper needles 

 ito UM use of sewed garments, and the mul- 

 in the town proves bow 

 have been. Flint was 

 wwkad far more elaboratelv than 

 of any age ; the splendid ex- 



. , . : :. M 

 at Oxford are now seen to belong t- 

 Both knives and forked lances are 

 Stone vase* of all material from ala- 

 tr to granite, were favorite possessions; they 

 are beautifully wrought, bat entirely made by 

 band, without any turning or lathe work. A 

 vwy punting da** of objects long known in 

 'ratistsiau figures of birds and animals, 



.. ,.,. 



WM * BUM. 9V^' " 1'IVTTO W 1JW 



UM paisttesfor grinding malachite, probably for 

 plIiHig UM eyva, as among Egyptians of the 



iurtii ! i ^11 tl / 



nai ayoasty. Beans were favorite orna- 



eota. and wwt made of oarnelian, lazuli. 



IfMMpMMA svpvntine, and giaasd stone. Pot- 



>nriu art ortheae new people; 



uiety.tiM flneoeaa,and the Quantity of it 



- :r ^- F graw are without ten or a 

 MSB vasva. HMSjetittMs even as many as eighty. 

 Mostof UMSI are of the coarser kinds, mWy 

 vsd for coatainiag UM ashes of UM great fa- 

 ml Are. for taougb the bodies wen 

 burned. A creat bumiita* waa made at M 

 <t^ Mfcai of wBcli wm> carefnll] 



w^n.K'^r^s^i^j^ 



with 



oarh fu- 

 carefully gath- 



* many as 90 or 



TIM varieties of pottery 

 . JSiMitili facing, the red 

 todsoxidatioo inUM asnesl 



1 torn (due to daoxidaUon in the ashes). 



and the llfbt brown . h rr handles, like the 

 Amorite potury. A later slag* of pottery W M 



of coarser brown, and of much altered forms, 

 copying somewhat from K^M'tia" temples of 

 I kiiipliuii. The wavy-handled ju> Wi-nt 

 through a series of chanffem forming a cunt mu- 

 ous scale by which ive ages can !., 



seen. Aniinal-dhaped vases and many em ions 

 mmrts are found in the red- fa Be- 



these form>, three kinds ,,f puiierv smn U) 

 have been im|x>rted : buff vases imitating stone, 

 it h red spirals and figures of animals and men ; 

 red polished vases with figures of animals and 

 patterns in white; and black bowls with in- 

 cised patterns, most like the earliest It a! 

 tcry. Besides these designs, a great 

 marks are scrat< ho local pot in 



not a single hieroglyphic or sign derived from 

 Egyptian writing has been i..und. A 

 fact showing the isolation of these people 

 the Egyptians is that all of thi> lii 

 hand made; the wheel was unknown. ' While 

 the source of this new race i !>< -deter- 



mined, some of the objects uoint strongly to an 

 t o connection, and others indicate a west- 

 ern source; but the . \morites w.-r- . .1- Mr. IVlric 

 suggests, probably a branch of the fair I 

 race. The geographical position is all in favor of 

 the race having come into Egypt through the 

 western and reat oases, : \ nth and 



eighth Egyptian dynasties were still living at 

 M. mi. his. showii 



emphis, snowing thai no people had 

 themselves ui> ii \>-\. The age of the 



new race is fixed ly tin- juxtaposition of thi-ir 

 burials with tho~ :irih and tin- twelfth 



dynasties, an d of their to\vn> with Imrials of the 

 tw.-lfth and thirteenth dynasties; and the known 

 history further limits toe date to between the 

 seventh and ninth dynasties, or about 3000 n. c. 

 The account of the discovery given hy Mr. t hii- 

 bell is parallel with Dr. Petne's, and in harmony 

 with it; and these two authors agree in the 

 supposition that the people of the new race 

 were Libyans who invaded Egypt at or after 

 ..... f the sixth dynasty perhaps. Mr. 

 V"il"'H suggests, they were the foreigners who 



Mll.V.-rted the old empire. 



\nti<|iiitiex II-MIII heir-el-ltahari. An ex- 



hbitk>n of articles from the temple ai i.-ir-i-i- 



Bfthari ^iven in London in July included many 



object- Interest and value dating from 



about 1400 B. c. Among them were a sei 

 tools, models, and vases which had been marked 

 with the name of Queen HaUhepsu. 

 and deposited below th. foundations of the i.-m- 

 ple. His metal blades of the tools are of IM 

 and the handles and wooden objects of syca- 

 more. There were besides these jars of unglazed 

 red ware, pots of alabaster with original covers, 

 wooden models, probably of thrashing sledges, 

 wooden hoes, the leathers of which were foun<! 

 in Kundlos close by; adzes, adze handles, stands 

 of basket work for jars, a sacrificial knit 

 axe. and blue scarabei of the queen. A number 

 of large painted coffins contained complete all 

 the accessories of burial the bead n--:- with 

 genii in blue headwork on the breasts of the 

 dead ; the wooden hawks and jackals, s> 

 of Hom and Anubis. on jrnard over the coffins: 

 and the wooden boxes filled with blue 



f--t. The mummies in them 

 are those of a priest of Khon*u. his mother, and 

 her sitter; and all were found together in a pit 



