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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 15

THE GRAVES ABOVE ASSUAN. * The discovery of forgotten races, the decipherment of ancient languages from scratches and obscure marks, the bringing to life again of civilisations whose history seemed obliterated, and other triumphs of archaeology, make us doss our eyes to the often unpleasant means by which the knowledge is acquired. We may dislike to think that our twentieth, century life may be judged by a few thousand years hence from the evidence scrapped out of our rubbish heaps; the repugnance at the rifling of the graveyard is stTonger, even if it is called a necropolis and its inmates have slept in it for many centuries. Even more unpleasant in its demands is the science of anthropology, and only the importance of the Tesults obtained can excuse an investigation on a large scale that has been made on the Nubian border of Egypt. When it -was decided to raise the Assuan dam 33ft it was clear that the Kile banks for miles back would be put under water. The effiort to prevent the improvement so as to save the temples at Pbilae will be remembered. The waters would also flood the cemeteries in a region of • peculiar historic importance the borderland betweeD the Egyptians and the black Taces from the earliest times, and the Egyptian Government appointed a commission of archaeologists- and anatomists to examine the burial grounds before the dam was closed. The commission did its work thoroughly; it found cemeteries of many dates, from 3000 B.C. to 500 A.D., and abundant material. The doctors especially obtained clear evidence about the matters they were interested in, for they found 2000 bodies in on© cemetery alone, many so perfect that, as the Lancet puts it, "their examination took more the form of a post mortem enquiry than a mere osteological inventory." Their report will throw a flood of light on the history' of human pathology, wholly apart, from the anthorpological information it contains. Some interesting generalisations' the Lancet reports. They have settled the fact that the earliest Egyptians were not embalmed but were mummified by the hot sand in which they were buried ; that the disordered condition of the bones is due entirely to the work of plunderers, who 'disturbed the graves in the search for treasure, and not to any burial customs nor as the result of cannibal habits ; that the preparation of the mummy was not attended by an elaborate ritual, but was entrusted to •embalmers, who were often extremely careless. The report, according to the Lancet,' puts an end to many theories which the Egyptologists have constructed from single cases or accidents to the mummies. More general interest will be taken, we imagine, in the tracing back to the days of the Pharaohs the diseases with which mankind .is now afflicted. The " Archseological Survey of Nubia" is likely to attract general attention. — New York Sun. There is- sentiment, even exhilaration, says The Argonaut, in the suggestion that /the old Portsmouth, from whose decks the Stars and Stripes were raised in California in 1846, should lead the, march of the Anierican battleship fleet through the Panama Canal and into the Golden Gate in 1915. The old ship, honourably past service in the ordinary sense, now lies in a quiet corner of the New York harbour, near the Jersey shore, awaiting the judgment of the Navy Department as to what ultimate disposition shall be mad© of her. j For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1b 6d and 2a od. — Advfc

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