

an* fragments of the Babylonian and 

 Talmud, which are of g* 



8MPMLV ' 



. . . ! .:: ..:. irgi quant 

 t.f autograph doeMMOts, 



.rtornth mittirirN with ImniiN li-gnl |*pcrs, 



-.-,,:' ...:.- '. - -. ..:.- 



Tlbt~ntli llrtt*Ht,. 



'from the 



,,., 



remains of a temple of Set at Xubi. near Nagada, 

 IMS brrn presented to the Ilriii-.li MIIMMIIII. It was 

 .*IIT piccem win .:ht at 



nt objects, but were after- 



r.i '.rra parts of a whole. Several pieces 



are still missing, bat the general structure of the 

 object is damrhr defined. The -I , ; , 

 and 6 inrhe* in diameter, with the upper part 

 carved and terminating in a head "huh is sup- 



- 



givtw a total height of 7 feet. The shaft is in- 

 scribed in fin. >s. with cartouch. 



: H. of the eighteenth dynasty all 



1 in dark cia/e into the white, sandy grit of 



ite of which the object is composed, ami tired 



with rich blue glaze. An important part of the 



. wiui foill. : ciillertion. 



and has been presented to the museum to a< 

 pany the rest. 



\nnuuities of II Kab.-Writing of his last 

 season's work at F.I Kab. iii whieh he was a> 

 by Mr. ^utbell. Mr. ' larke observes that 



-ibt true, that so far as we can tell 

 he tomb of SeU-knekht is the old- 

 est of the rock tombs there, it is hardly probable 

 that there may not have been otl..-r> older than it 

 Baried beneath the slope of sand that lies against 

 the north side of the great wall were found several 

 mast aba* of brick with paneled sides: bowls of 

 diorite two bearing the name of Sen. fru were 

 with other things in the wells, stain-use tombs 

 were aim fou ml similar to those at Nagada. a number 

 of Libyan burials, also a cemetery of the twelfth 

 .*tjr, part of the great wall and part- 



within. The remains of ma*tabn* similar to those 

 found out*ide and of the same period win found 

 inside the inclosure. The wall was evidently built 

 regardless of the ancient sanctuaries. TJ,,. ,j a te of 

 the great wall has : determined. While 



the inscriptions in the immediate neighborhood had 

 already demonstrated the importance of Kl Kab in 

 the sixth dynasty, the researches have now carried 

 it b* iirth dvnatty. when, judging by the 



ui.s. it "must ha 

 of no little consequence. 



lie Implements from l-\pt and Somali- 

 land. A collection of prehistoric flint implements 

 Mr. II. U. S,-i n Karr in 

 ' - - te<l inJui i .; th< roonu 



of the Arrhamlogical Institute. The mines :,- 

 uated in the Wady-el-Sheik district, in the :, 

 desalt of Egypt, about :io miles distant fn.m the 

 the types of implements are new to 

 science. Only two pahrolithie imi ' the 



earliest date were found in this region, others m- 



1 in the exhibition came 



, N : !:,.. : . . : ,1,,- 



western desert. At some of the mines are - 

 about two feet in diameter, filled up with drifted 

 sand, and surrounded by msasfH of excavated r---k 

 neatly arranged. There was usually a central 

 work* place where most of the objects were discov- 

 ered. In some mines a number of clubs or trun- 

 cheons lay distributed uniformly as though hurriedly 



left when the iiuarrics were abandoned. Other im- 

 tiliMiient -- "f dint and quart/ite are frmn Somali- 

 iand. They wen- found <>n a l-mg low hill about 

 KH miles from the eoaM. The coiinlrv around 



was of limestone, in >..me places overflowed i>y 

 lava, and the implements lay in . and 



that these disco \ .:.i l>.-ariu[: 



on the (jue.Mion of tl ..... riu'inal home of the human 



race. <>f their identity in form with -...me from the 



. -I her plaees t here call be 



no doubt, and we need not heMtate in elaiming 

 them a.s pala-olithie." 



,,f th( ptian race 



I bv M. le Vi. u the 



Bulletin et nemoira de , 



i lll'ee 1 heo- 



on the subject: 1. That the I. from 



through the isthmus ,,; i | m | they 



came, partly from Aia. through l-!thiopia: and :'{ 



that the majority of them originated in Africa and 



passed into Rgjpl by the west and southwest. M. 



.i-i-d on the lat- 



in I'abylonia and the comparison >ft: 

 mains of the eariiesi known Kgyptian art with the 

 probably still earlier rcn, -|y found I 



for believing that Kgyptian civilixation \\a- derived 

 directly from I'.abylonia. 



Historical \alnc ol .Mr. I'clric's hi-co\ ei i.-. 

 Prof. 1'ctrie sjioke at the annual meeting of the 



Kxploration Fund. Nov. lo. of the results of 

 \\\^ labors among tombs .if the fifth dymi-' 

 Desha-heh as being of the greatest interest for the 

 early hi-toryof Kgypt. From the mas> of bm.. 

 hid DOW collected they had, for the iirM time, an 

 insight into the great question of the populations 

 of the country. They could now definitely say that 

 there was no' clear change during three <-r four 

 thousand years, and that a distance of ."iu miles 

 made more dilTerenee in the type than a lai 

 four thousand rears in one place. They had the 

 fortune to find a group of statues of "the fifth 

 dyna-ty. and to bring to Fngland one of thetw.. 

 best, which was far the fim-t piece of Fgyptian 

 statuary that had ever reached that coin 



Algeria. Mussulman l.'iiin* of Kalaa. M. 

 Blanchet. working under the Ardia-ological >,,ci.-ty 

 of Con>tantine, Algeria. re|iort> the disc., very .if 

 the Miis-ulman city which was in the eleventh cen- 

 tury the capital of northern Africa the Kalaa of 

 iJeni llammad. This city, whieli onOC had SO, 000 

 inhabitants is DOW OOTered With grain fields. aii<l 



i"h it the traveler has t.. ride wveD hours. 

 among the mountains. Many ai-cha-ologjstv 

 passed within a few miles of 'it without suspecting 

 its existence. M. I'.lanchet has exhumed ,,n tin- 

 site a mosque of a I >out 'joo by iso feet dimei! 



. d with L" 'Ids and sustained b\ 



umiis of ros- marble: a palac,-; a public fountain ; 

 a Castle i: '<-d on the top of a 1'ock 



and flanked by towers, the least ruined of which 

 was about 1" feet high. The discovery <! 

 additional ijit -i bat U" .Mussul- 



man ruin of the cp,,ch of this one was known to 



;n Algeria. The monuments of Tlemeen 

 built in the twelfth <-entury; those of Kalaa date 

 from 1'KiT. A new < -hapti-r in the history f art 



evealed to us. 



India. Kuins of Dim put. Phe ruins of Di- 

 maput in Assam consist of a numlM-r of t 

 r|iiaiititi'^ of broken pottery, and a number of 

 carved speckled gray sandstone-. jn< -los.d in an 

 area about a mile s/juare !,y a brick wall of later 

 building, with a moat and "a gate. IMmapiit was 

 sacked by tin- Ahoms in 1 .":).". and has been unin- 

 habit- liile a d ; grown up 



all over the upper valley of tin- I)huniri. The 



