ANCIENT EGYPTIANS IN ENGLAND.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1924, Page 3

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS IN ENGLAND.

PROFESSOR’S STRIKING NEW

BOOK. LON DON, Feb. 28That the nlicifiit Egyptian visited Kuala ml ami that certain of the hong Barrows. prehistoric remains found in various parts of this country, are tombs of Egyptian nobles, are among the important theories advanced by Air \V. ,]. Terry, Header in Cultural Anthropology in the Lniversity of London, m his new and extraordinal il\ interesting book “The Growth, of ( ivilisation.” This deduction is borne out by a bilge amount of evidence, and though it has not as yet been universally accepted, it has received much support .from other researchers. ’lhus: Recently Air 0. (!. S. Crawford, the lately appointed Archaeological Officer to the Ordnance Survey, lias, in tin interesting monograph on Long Barrows, polslished li.v the Ordnance Survey, maintained that the Long Harrows of England certainly are derived Irom the Egyptian mnstnha type of grave. In one instance it was lound that the part of the harrow corresponding to the forecourt of the Egyptian mastaba contained bones of animals. Evidently animal sacrifices had been performed there to provide llie dead with tood, just as was the case in the Egyptian funerary ritual. KM’Lornxo coilxish tin. The presence here of Egyptians Air Perry explains thus: They used great (pmntitie.s of gold and copper and came t„ Cornwall and Devon to exploit the “stores of gold and copper, and pertains also of tin." which those comities contained. In ancient days Dartmoor and other parts of the country ■were rich in gold, while no one has vet been able to explain where the ancient world obtained all tile Jan the | it needed for bronze if not in Cornwall. Further evidence of Egyptian activity here is that: The beehive huts made bv the (prehistoric) settlers on Dartmoor are exactly similar to the dwellings of Egyptian miners of the early dynasties in the Smaitic I enmsula; and stone circles are also Hmnc in both places. . That the Egyptians had large ships, larger than those of Columbus, is another of Air Perry’s contention*. there is proof that they voyaged ■ For instance, Dr C. K. hoj '-is eently discovered in San ( . hns oi the Solomons. (MHitlMMst “ * ' Guinea) a culture so distinctly Eg.vp - ian and Egy,,tiau of the Pyramid Age. that the effect inVinnl? astounding. The mystery is the greater, because there are no known traces ot the P«’«liur tombs and portrait statues, have been found in M.n C nstm .d .ml in E-vpt, between the two countue. . But in 1 the Torres Straits, between Australia and New Guinea T ot Smith definitely states tba the nique of n.umniihcaUon » op s t (Egyptian) dynasty , ", the Egyptians many cental n.s o borate! This suggests intercourse a much later date. ,j ie subject of 'contreyersy Die r ttsusssss&i 1 cr of putting Ids theories and facts | the simplest language.