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are requested to initial presentation of the discovery smile of that great face hewn out for Tickets to the Ball as soon as mother of Cheops. In June, 1897, it known years ago that the batter, meaning. Professor Reisner made possible to Mr. S, T, BUTLIN, when he first went to Egypt, people ed visage joined to the body of the Hon. Secretary: c/o Linstead & were saying that the soil there was Hon is merely the sculptured coun- becoming exhausted, One dis tenance of Chephren, builder the covery after another followed, all
pyramid that bears his of which opened the eyes of the was king of Egypt abot 350 B.C Be, "Ho world to pages of Egyptian history It was the discovery of the statue that were unsuspected.
of Mycerinus that led to be solving "At the present time I have come of the mystery of the phinx. back to tell you the story of the There were several ctures of excavations which have taken place the Sphinx to Illustrate the methoda TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN want to bring back to your minds the scaffolding and also revealing since 1924," the speaker said. "and extent of restoration, one with IN
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Contributories history and personality of the stoned and sand have done whose Calls remain unpaid on the people. First, let me say that the 31st December, 1929.
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assembled the earliest known Began with Dynasty IV Professor Relaner remarked that examples of the art of Egypt in the In his lectures he had found that great creative period of the fourth dynasty. He showed pictures of it is impossible for people to under- stand the beginnings of things until indicated the point of his excava- the cemetery as he first saw it and they have seen the full develop tion, which was within twelve feet ment. He therefore began at the from where the Europeans stopped great period of the culmination of their work. The process of initial Egyptian culture, the great creative work, simple to the archaeologist, period of Dynasty IV, and succeed was described na was the gradual ing lectures will deal with the temper of that time and with the movement underground, with its kings and queens and other great
exciting clues. figures who brought to perfection
First they came upon a floor Magnafilters (for cutting out that great civilization. From that upon which the Egyptians had
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was mere dust hosp, but patient, the race was emerging from the exacting work resulted in fashion- stone ago with half-savage tribes ing many of the rarest treasures wielding spears and maces tipped now exhibited in the Cairo museum
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and also in the settlement of many stones. In their emergence they had invented moot points in family records. The first duty was to photograph the copper working and the weighing interior and to draw plans of the stone borer and had built up a
strong centralized monarchy. They contents. Then came the removal had developed agriculture, had in- of the fragments of chairs and bed vented hieroglyhle writing and had Canopies and alabaster material. created an art.
The party was able to reconstruct The kings, were Cheops, Chephren. Dedef-Ra, My-the Queen's armchair, covered with serinus, Shepseskaf.
gold, and a gold and ebony carry. ing chair, among other things.
Pictures of the 'Pyramids The slides gave forceful reminder of the wonderful discoveries made, but, they were equally 'Informative as to the extraordinary building akill of the Egyptians. The pyramid of Cheops alone, one of the greatest monumenta of the world, is of solid masonry and covers thirteen acres. One slide presented ja view of persons standing at the entrance to this great mound, thus revealing the enormous size of the stones. Professor Reisner had much to way of the pyramids and of their method of construction, and of the Sphinx. lamenting the fact that the great palaces and sumizer homes of the early aflätocrata are without trace to-day. He showed the
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