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VOLUME XIX. No. 165.
EGYPTOLOGIST
IELLSJF TRIP
Professor Edward Naville Be
lieves He Has Penetrated
Death Chamber of Egyptian
King-God.
Paris. —Professor Edward Neville,
the Egyptologist who has been direct
ing six hundred men and boys in ex
cavations to unearth the temple and
tomb of Osiris, has returned to his
chair at the University of Geneva
elated with the belief that he has
penetrated to the actual funeral
chamber of the ancient Egyptian
king-god, and that another winter's
work which is already assured under
auspices of the Anglo-American
Egyptian Exploration Company, will
bring to light important details bear
ing upon the history of Osiris.
The legend is that Osiris, a wise
and beneficient King who reclaimed
the Egyptians from savagery, met a
sudden and premature death by the
scheming of his wicked brother Seth,
who, with seventy-two fellow con
spirators, invited Osiris to a banquet
and induced him to enter a cunningly
wrought coffin. They shut down the
lid and cast the chest and its body
into the Nile. Isis, faithful wife of
the beloved king, recovered the body.
The legend continues that Seth and
his fellow conspirators then cut the
body into fourteen pieces, and scat
tered the parts all over Egypt—each
piece being entombed by worshippers
of Osiris —which accounts for the
numerous tombs to him. The faith
ful Isis, however, regathered the
pieces and brought them back to the
Temple of Abydos.
This, temple, where Prof. Neville
has been conducting the excavations,
is, he is sure, the true burial place of
Osiris. The place is about equidis
tant between Cairo and Assouan, in
the desert about eight miles west
ward from the Nile.
Prof. Neville believes this temple
is older than the Pyramide. Relati
ing some details of his work to The
Associated Press correspondent at
Geneva, he said:
“We worked from December 24,
1913, to March 11, 1914, and during
the eleven weeks we experienced
some anxiety and excitement. At
nine yards under the soil we found a
large building constructed of granite
and verv hard red sandstone. This
edifice is divided into three naves,
which are surrounded by sixteen
large cells and identical in size and
shape. They have no inscriptions on
the walls whatever. This proves that
the building is very ancient as the
walls of mere modem edifices in
Egypt are covered with inscriptions.
“In front of the cells in a stone
platform supported by ten huge
blocks of granite. Skirting this plat
form we came upon the reservoir or
well o' Osiris, which undoubtedly is
that mentioned by the Roman histo
rian Strabo. While the reservoir has
not yet been explored, it is probable
that its waters had been popular at
tne time for their supposed curative
virtues. ... ,
“On the opposite side of the temple
to that where we entered we found
the burial place of Osiris, as the Book
of the Dead and the inscription on
the walls of the funeral chamber,
twenty yards by five, proved to us
beyond all doubt. You can imagine
tihat we were greatly delighted at the
discovedy.
“We found also that in some re
mote past Egyptian thieves had been
at work there. They had entered the
funeral chamber by piercing a hole
in the wall, but of course it will
never be known what the thieves car
ried away. Did they take the sarco
phagus of Osiris? All Egyptologists
in the course of their research in the
ruins of Egypt have come across
traces of thieves who were consider
ed to be the cleverest in the then
known world. They formed them
selves into associations and gangs
with the special object of robbing
tombs as it was the anicent custom
among Egyptians to bury valuables
with their dead.. There was a super
vision of the tombs, but this the
thieves seem to have avoided easily,
judging by their exploits.
“The whole of the vast edifice we
discovered is in a bad state of ruins,
because it and its surroundings were
used as a quarry in the time ot
Ramses, II.” . , ..
Professor Neville, who is an elder
ly man, insisted upon paying honor to
his "brave assihtants.” Messrs. Wain
wright and Gibson of London, and
Thomas Wittemore, of Tufts College,
Massachusetts.
"0. IJ. Trustworthy"
Correspondent at ’Frisco
London—The “Times” has Just
been informed by a "trustworthy cor
respondent recently returned from
San Francisco,” that everybody there
connected with the Panama-Pacific
Exposition of 1915 is mystified, as
well as mortified, at the atitude or
Great‘Britain in view of the German
preparations that are being made.
He went over the Golden Gate Park
grounds with the archietct who is re
?l onslble for the buildings of the
Exhibition, and discovered from him,
that, unless an immediate application
were made, there would be great dif
ficulty now in allotting any position
for a British Pavilion, should the
government at the late hour modify
its decision not to be represented
On the other hand, though, Germany,
in accordance with his engagement
to Great Britain, officially holds aloof
an excellent site has been given for
n Gorman building, to contain an im
portant exhibit of German industries
and manufactures, which will be one
of the most prominent features of
the Exhibition. The money for or
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Germany.
The Informant was surprised that
this fact was not known in England,
and that the British government
should still be hesitating as to Its
policy. „„
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