THE STORY OF THE SPHINX

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 90, 23 April 1913, Page 3

THE STORY OF THE SPHINX

AN AMERICAN HOAX. A recent cablegram reported that tho alleged discoveries by Professor Reisner in the Sphinx were merely the result of the imaginative powers of some American journalists. The story, now discredited, was as follows i

In an attempt to solve the riddle of the Sphinx, a problem that has puzzled ■ the ages, Professor G. A Reisner, Harvard Egyptologist, has made several sensational discoveries. Inside the Sp£mx Professor Reisner found, a temple dedicated to the sun. It is older than any of the pyramids, and its date is somewhere about BQOO 8.C., the ■ most ■ ancient in Egyptian (History. Mena, or dyiepes as his. nape 'is; sometimes swelled, 1 was thg'firsjt king ;of : Egypt of whom'.modern, scientists •have discolored historic I record, pie tomb of Mejna, the Iring jvhp jnade himself a gotl arid wild’' faslribnud the Sphinx, is also within it. There are tunnels leading into caverns which have not yet been penetrated, for the work has only been going on for six months. The Sphinx is carved out of * the natural rock, but within are the caves, and buildings of a city of gold, which was; once , openi to the air.-: At present the •■excavations are confined to the chamber in the head. This chanjber is 60ft. long by lift. wide. It is connected In tunnels with the temple of the sun, which rests within. the paws ; pf tin Sphinx. Such relics as the “Crux Ansata” (the looped cross), symbol of the sun, are found by the hundreds Several of these are gold, and have wires for tiny bells, which, when sounded by the priests, summoned up ghosts. Inside the Sphinx are alsc tiny pyramids, although the Sphinx was built long before the Great Pyramids. A pyramid in those days was a sun-dial, according to Professor Reisner, and the Sphinx was a sun god. The pyramid of Cheops is an absolutely accurate timekeeper. According to Professor Reisner, Egypt of to-day is one vast city, the edge of which has been scratched, and the interior of which probably never will bo disclosed. Professor Reisner hopes to discover among the relics of the Sphinx the secrets of the Egyptian priests, whose magics is believed to have been marvellous; He says be is having unusual difficulties in his pork, for the Arabs who are assisting him refuse absolutely to sleep in the chamber. They say, according to the Standard, that there are devils there, and that the man who sleep there will die.