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..ii ;- MAC Sunday- - ,-,-r, ; . - : ill AG AZIN L' SECTION-THREE 4 1 ' n v - . :f li r AVMa , v 'til 4 T i ft J t Imperial '.Tachi of CaiigutesRiorereiffrotnLaAf 1 'ELFIN G. here and there it the 1 - tarth; ; now 1 exploring yfhe ad- 5icrf Mi dunes of thexNue i and, , x again, the mountain fastnesses of Mexico and Peru: even searching the bottoms of ilaqd.l: ' -Italian lakesmodern research, is evti throw- tng new light upon the dim outlines of ancient , . history . . ; 0 ; ; :; f ; bRecent cxeatationrin Egypt havcbrought 7d firhi ruins of structures erected there by 7 r 1 ' . .... . . ' ' .? tM Hebrew uondrneni who precededZHttS': .f t i . . - . ine men svno. maae encKS jwanoui sirav. - - I-' Even- bricks so made Move been recovered ;r!r "';"', r ilorr it fort an still; tablet has been 21 " v i uncovered, upon' which some ancient historian ; ' ' covered the story :of the famous seven-year ' . famine that caused the, brothers of Joseph to ZZZ. r Frorr. the waters of LakeNemt. in ItaU ' ,v the imperial galleyi of Tiberius and CaUgula, f il. . if- i j i'm -.i. G "iwt famujis fiuanng uanquci naiut wncrem the- elite oJ'theKoman Empire gathered on festive-occasionsjrares being-dredged. : , : What is supposed to have been the treas ure house of Montezuma has recently been un- covered in Mexico. Additional relics "of the ' :icj are coming'. to light in Peru.1 v -rttheachdtscoverynew light ts shed Ii -1 n .J I-r I 11 ' !' f , 'l-Tr-Vf' 1 1 ' vSsi-:. :.": ...jiiWy', - .. mi ; .-'i'i;-:i'.i't . ' . t - - - t 1 t Rums of thr Monfrtumaf Jt J Supposed Treat ure foute I " L -X': T" t Ar mortf or ,V misty pages of .ancient ntstory. , 'mat t m v - m tvK-v f'-y.f, '4 " ' m '-Wi .All ,: ..VV1V ' -TV. ri r-. I Sf . A , i, ... -.v .!-r . .m: ... . r ...1111, , - sm t Tailleyotth Torrtbof Kings,H'AfrtlToini of thr j FfiQBaoh offroctus irds found. - ! ' 'Ptomy & j;. - . -' : ,-' . . . ' " :... ' 1.;.! '-Li, .0 D Record '6 'tfie vSeren Jfors gypfo?n f2rtctte of. JosejeA$':7imevs v -7 , TTie first chapter of Exodu statei that the ine that smote the land when the A Ue.filed to,ns Egyptian authorities, under "the Hew', king which v durintf seven successive yeara' - r " - " :t'. knew not Jonoph" afflicted 'the,, children, of Israel. . , .This troilble, theinSc'ripticrastatPa, was, k; with burdens, compelling them to build "for. .lievpd, finally, by a gTeat inundation, following tM Pharoah treasure cities, Pithom. and Eaamses2J prayer of the .king to the cataract fcod,.Khnura. . Here it was that the burdened boiidpeople wera ; Every Sbnday'school scholar ia' fariiiliar ith Z3rTghrtiiflTisfg!iks-y-the nvprseeraf thef-the story ofth terriblo- seven year oldrought ana king, and were, compelled to make .bricks without famine that fo!WeJtui"sev"en years ofplenty. straw. .ij , Egypt .during Joseph's time. ; , ' v' ' Eavations reveal the fact t'.a" ancient In the years .of plenteousharvesti Joseph gath ciry was constructed principally of the unburned, ered cornjas the sand of theVa," and stowed if in J; J i l x'. i " . m il' i. ii. ' I : ::A. St. . .n kn . r. A .tvatavv tint ' ' -'of the crude luaterial were unearthed, the bricks of of dearth ennu i'm ali.the lanil ot Egypt,', there waa " ' ' which, it wai found, had in fact been' niado with-bread." r -T ...v. .--i;.,,.,,.. . .:.,' ' out straw. '.. . . - ' "Ad all countries came iuto Egypt for w pujf k NLY A short time ago it was announced that ', Tlere is little doubt in the minds of Egyptolo- 1 corn, because that the famine .was so sore i a i wealthy American Eryptologtst. Iheo- " gists that the structures uncovered at 1'ithom were .' '"""I- ; .' :- ' . i. - . . ' dore . Ml Davis, who h been exnlorinff used as the store houses and srranariea of the Tha- lhese ehiseletl records of long ago seen w "V 1 amid and near the ruins of ancient Thebes, raoh. bring back the Biblical past with realistic intensity mil liritnpasi. ' - 1 . " ' .- ' " ' - ' " f.a'. i : .1 i7.il e T i,- ' ti,. n......nA,l a. . .v.. and directness liings, the burial place of Mci-en Ptah. armies and caravans crossing the desert, and were V . ere proof needed of the entt.taining nam. 7This King fa supposed by many archaeologists ; built, undoubtedly, by the sorely-oppressed Hebrew . lv7 f 0c.I,es"; Vod herf- i to have been the Pharaoh of Exodus who oppressed bondmen. - , , . uw ; wneu me u'"-"""T Vj. ; the Israelites. Xot long ao hi mummy was found, Indications, too, of the route taken by the flee- - 01 great interest, too,, to the twknta o,"; in the tomb of Amenhotep II, at Thebes, an- ing Israelites in the exodus Uve been unearthed vtory are the dredging operation -that hare been . tiquities were discovered in the tomb, however. from these ruins, although the tablets have not yet . 0,nT .n 0n t,ni beneath Uie waters ollaka ' . For some time excavations lave been conducted been fully deciphered. . ; " ' "M.1 It,ttli" ' ! ' ...fri mm by Henri Eduard Naville at the site of the ancient Still mon. interesting, perhaps, is the discovery - This pleasing dx.ly of water was tail i city of Pithom, in the Nile Delta. - . ) of inscriptions npon rocks on -the Island of Sehel. X J Jli-t , . ibelow toe first cataract ot the JSUe. ,, . """ v'1 , TV" ' fortresa outpost at the edge of the desert for tha Sehel was dedicated to the god Anukia, and con-.1 wn wrougnons um ... v. -- . armies, of,Iameses .It, its founder,, and his sue-' ".taina tlw ruins of two tempW More than 200 Wealthy Jtomnna Xlhw tM.llr t cesser. . - - inscriptions have been found engraved ' upon its ' P""' ound- nJ hry w . V : V: .In tr.e fttl.at thi. andcity.wa ... . emperors, who. con,l,m-i worship, of Puna t ''-tlio'laraclito boaLDaeiu lies' ite.pzinoipal' intczestr . ' '0ne.oi .Uia-inacription3.tulla.of 4terrible fanv-.--, -.. .coNXWUO'' WSUSS V.