Egyptian Nrecroplis Urearthed

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 16

Egyptian Nrecroplis Urearthed

' ALEAANDEIA.— Au iinportafit discovery was.mad'e recently of a Greek uecropolis c'.ii'ting.from B. C. 300 found uuder a whste piece of ground at Musta pha Pasha, a suburb of Aiexandria. r'uur out df lxve of the tornlps unco'vered up to the '-presentV have beeH.^completely excavated, afid " tliese pfove tp be line examples ' of ' the ' purest Dorie style of architecture. The tombs were foun'd'some distancO under ground, thoUgh.'th'e jnarks of wind and sand oii tho 'coiumns show that they were once above ground exposed to the violent whirlwinds of sand, customary near the MediterraneaiUcoast line." The necropoiis w.as probably the pro.-, perity of the plutoeracy of the-.period. Each of the five tombs. exeavate.d "shows architeetural differ'enees but all are of Greek coneeption, including examples of pure Dorie style and of a totally different plan from other, Greek mausoleums plan from other Greek mausoleums of which xemains, have. heen found in. vari-. ous. partsi of Aiexandria. Mights ot' steps Iead to the entrance of e'aeh tomb. _ ' . " In addition -to other sepulehral chtm-' bei;s, altars, wells and fouhtains,.vaults have been opened dn the walls of some of the'c'hambers to accohunVdate" later generations. In one of thei" toinbs four .small dcfaced sphinxcs .■wero'uncbvered" and on two oi the altars ,the remains of the last' sacrificial 'off ei'ings ' on * *behal£ of the.inmates of the tomb were. fouqd just as ; they had b^en' Teft mbre than 2000 years ago. , .