Photo by A. W. Ci 



GOING TO BED IN A CUP 



These curious cup-like structures, made of sun-baked mud, are seen in Egyptian villages. 

 Families sleep in them at night during the great heat of the summer to escape the snakes 

 and scorpions which abound. 



thousand five hundred years after his 

 death he had been transformed into a 

 god of medicine, whom the Greeks knew 

 as Imouthis and whom they identified 

 with their own Asklepios. 



The head of the giant Sa-nekht, carved 

 in the rock of the Wady Maghareh at 

 Sinai, presents strongly marked Ethio- 



pian characteristics, and Petrie infers 

 that the third dynasty marks an infusion 

 of Ethiopian blood into the ruling race, 

 whether by conquest or marriage, the 

 mixture of race giving rise to the re- 

 markable development of energy which 

 characterized the succeeding dynasty. 

 That development, of course, is sig- 



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