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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



classify and read the cuneiform documents excavated during the 

 last two years in Nippur. During the summer he will also com- 

 plete the reorganization of the Semitic section of the Ottoman 

 Museum. 



The lectures of Miss Amelia B. Edwards, in the fall of 1889, 

 aroused considerable interest in the subject of Egyptology. Sev- 

 eral thousand dollars were contributed by the Archaeological 

 Association, and the work of excavation was begun by Flinders 

 Petrie. Valuable collections of Egyptian antiquities were re- 

 ceived in return at the end of the seasons, and Mrs. Cornelius Ste- 

 venson was elected curator of the newly formed Egyptian section. 



Egyptian Hall Museum of Archeology. 



The museum contains a historical and industrial series of Egyp- 

 tian objects from the fourth dynasty down to the Ptolemaic 

 times. A collection placed on exhibition March 20, 1896, is of 

 the greatest interest to science. Things sunk to earth between 

 the years 2800 and 3500 B. c, illustrating the life of the Libyan 

 invaders of Egypt, were brought to light a year ago by Flinders 

 Petrie, the explorer. About thirty miles from Thebes, in the 

 oldest Egyptian tombs, a most unexpected and startling discovery 

 was made. There were found burials of strange un-Egyptian in- 

 terlopers, whose large numbers and peculiar mode of disposing of 

 their remains, as well as the implements, pottery, stone work, etc., 

 composing their funeral deposits, show them to be not only in- 

 truders, but intruders who had once swept over the region, bor- 



