THE HIGHLY CIVILISED ANCIENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 276, 30 November 1901, Page 1

THE HIGHLY CIVILISED ANCIENTS.

Tu,. ni'ddle-ttged man who has explored life to weariness .uut vbom note's will no longer stir may find his sense oi mastery and wonder excited anew by the account of discoveries in buried Kgypt. i’rof. Flinders Petrie, who has devoted his life to exploration of the soil and research into the history of that ancient land, completed last "wc-ek a series of highly instinctive and suggestive lectures at the Koval institution. Long-buried tombs of ancient kmg» have- been discovered and explored, and, although in nearly all eases these have been previously pillaged in the Roman ace, enough of their contents remains unbroken or overlooked tut now to afford ground tor reconstructing, in outline at'least, a wonderful and unsuspected civilisation. When we are shown, for ex- ! ;u ,!pie. specimens of goldsmith's work i dating from -i’.'-O years beiore the Christian era. which ha- never bee:; surpassed since igi technical ski;], working of designs, variety of form and perfection o' soldering, "e are sobered somewhat in our | be'ief that the proves, of turn, means pro; I ,-rc.ss and that the present i- rite best and for instance, of tire products of modern steam spinning and weaving. Yet the linen woven G.UOO years ago was finer it: 1 t'uve&d and closer in web titan cur fine?'