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THE CHINA MAIL. THURSDAY, MAY 24; 1956.

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By Gilbert Sedbon

Saqqara, City of the Dead, May 23.

A British archaeologist, Professor Walter Emery, digging in the sands of the Saqqara plateau 20 miles south of Cairo, has found a royal tomb dating back to the first dynasty Pharaohs 5,000 years ago.

But that their

modem

Then on His discovery has brought to pit over.

top they light the earliest example of raised a big rectangular mound monumental architecture in of rubble which they encased in Egypt, and established for the brick. Having done that they

time

times built the mastaba on top to that that Saqqara

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the burial the mound is entirely concealed. plate of first dynasty Phinos That mound would appear to be funerary struc-the rerumor of the great Step tures at Abydos, in Upper Egypt, Pyramid built by King Zoser of

e only countúpás.

the third dynasty and which Professor Emery. 02-year-old dominates the entire mecropolis Falwards Profesor of Egyptology at Saqqara. in the University of London and

on Egypt's

archule an expert period, has found the royal tomb of Queen Her-Nit, & queen of Ove First Thinnite Gynnsty which reigned on the banks of The Nile 3,000 years before the birth of Christ

Pyramid Complex

Tire

Earliest Form

The Egyptian Department of Antiquities Intends to build a roof over the recently discovered tamb

and conserve the casi facade

The of

superstructure silli standing to a height of D frei

who taken

Egyptalists tomb, which is 100 feet Ford and 40 feet wide, consists previously

have part

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Professor Emery has Anished surrounds the his digging for this season. but A A great wall

the from Hongkont | whole Installation of

will raturn to Baqqara Inter in tomb, compiled by the

which the Professor belleves to the year to continue his excava- Behind the tomb which of tens be undoubtedly the prototype of the pyramid complex of the he has been uncovering, on the

of later third and fourth dynasties, edge

excerpment, of the

there aro convinced that Professor Einery started his is

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ption workers were *TTI- played to remove several thou- sand tons of desert cond, rubble and debris.

Then Professor Emory dis- covered a descending passage below the mastuba, leading into a great rock-cut burial chamber. There, he found the remains of

a

redar wood sarcophagus.

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The interior of the mastaba was divided into a series magazines. in which was placed cxira fuirerary equipment for the use of the deceased.

Jap Scalings

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broken stone vases and pieces of pottery in schist, diorite and alabaster were recovered by the excavo- tory.

Emery to

Evin ve important, clay jap sealings and stone vessels bare the nome of Queen Her-Nit. There is evidence that she was burled in the early part of the reign of Udimu, nih Pharaoh if the An

fret dynasty Among the objects found was a very fine, chailce-shaped vessel made of schist and pink limestone. It was found inside the coffin,

which led Professor believe that Was the Quetri's own drinking Vessel About live inches high, it is one of the finest examples of stone vessels of the Arst dynasty ever discovered.

The excavatorS then across a most precious, unique piece Jewellery in the shape of a small necklace of gold and cornelian stones, of a delicacy which

chę would never have. pected existed in the early part of the first dynasty, The neck- lace is unique in that it has escaped the attention of robbers through continued plundering of the tomb In the past 5,000 years. Scale Plan

came

sus..

Other objects. Included a masu of magnificent dishes made of rock crystal onc millimetre thick.

As he superintended the excavations, Professor Emery made notes of the orchitectural details of the tomb, the form of: the brick work and designs, and where and how the objects were

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found.

In a big drawing room adjoin. ing his bungalow overlooking and Nile valley the green

the world's Memphis, cnce biggest metropolis, In drow sale plan of the tomb with all

details which -minute

the excavators hive been able to

Irace.

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The mastaba originally slood nearly 22 feet high surrounded by a a wall six feet high. On a low mud bench running, rouha the tomb had been modelled series of bulls, heads made of mud. Into these mud treads, real horns were inserted. The pur- of these heads is not clear, They may have been a protár tion for the tomb, or they may have been food offerings to the dead Queen.

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After Allo ancient Phamphu put the 'burial tirn; in the bự rock-cut shaft, they rooted the

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Nesting Shortage

In Land Of Housing Shortage

The Hague, May 22,

Storks are disappearing from their traditional places in the Dutch countryside because they face a "housing shortago" almost as drastic as the Dutch people themselves.

This was revealed by steps 50 good nests which the storks now being taken by the Nether will find walking for 'tham' lande Association for the Pro when they return each spilhg tection of Birds to svody, the after spending winter In situation by building a lato Africa. number of pests to attract storks back to Hollarit,

Before World War 1,

Florco Fighting

The trony of the shortage of particularly

500 inhabibed stor nests were storks neats counted in Holland. The latest striking in Holland where the censur taken last Your showed housing shortage is one of the only 68. The figura stems to greatest problems still facing have dropped most during the country after the war World War 11 because, in 1030, The Netherlands is short of there were still over 300 heste some 200,000 houses, and since.

to in use, while 10 years later the this problem is expected number had fallen to just over take many years to solve, the 80.

storks will probably be better Dutch off than most averago ..

couples in having a place of their own in which to live, the The clocks housing short- tho age"

fletce Oghling cnused situation with somna consum, among riyal pairs

rs of birds

in

Viewed. With· Concorn

The Association for Protection of Birds views

a

fearing that stories may become some parts of the cou

country last virtually extinct in Holland if year Pitched battles were held

It over the tight to a prompt action is not takin

neat with claima that these beautiful the

a large num the result that

and birds are foraising the Nether- ber of eggs

birda young lands

can no because they

were thrown out and lost. to live. longer find anywhere

In fact, only 90 storks were Storks do not build their own hatched in Holland last year, nests but rely on finding o as compared with well over ready-made site to lay their thousand before World War I.

Onu farmer who built a special nest of bundles of twigs, Their traditional nest is om di

and gr:69 sods, black earli house or a cart wheel attiched

was almost immpilates to use top of a long pole seduled by most mig at

graffled in the ground.

These nests pair of storks which promptly have to be sp

specially made to settled in, suit the stock, and the Associa tion estimates the cost of ong such nest at 200 guilders (about £20 sterling) too much for the average farmer to pay..

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Storks are pherished in the Dutch countryside "and" their arrival is always welcome be- cause popular belief has it that they bring good luck to house on which they nest.

Deprived Of Food

the

With their contrasting white and black plumage, and their bright red bit and logs, stocks are strikingly conspicuous tho

high,

fat Dutch countryside, Standing moro

sore than three feet they walk across the land with a dignited air in search of their favourite food-insels, frogs and field mice.

Lack of this food has probably

also

contributed to the

stork's growing rarity in Hol- land, according to the Associa 4100 Improved agricultural mathods and new, uses to which the land is being put, have driven off mice and from and deprived the stork of ita favourite fooding placto,

The Dutch climate, which is becoming warmer but damper, also appears to deter storks from

Asiring to Hölland, tho.......

It alleges, moreover, that great numbers are shot as they. Lay their way back from Africa over Brice and Belghum

fly to their death against High tension wires la. Germany. But the Association does not fear their, total extinction be druso somo 20,000 breeding paits were counted in Spain Tast | year,

Likely To Succeed- As part of its compalen to Improve the stork's nesting. situation, the. Association has promised: that it will inforin every person "ndopling" a nest, where it hos. been pisced, whether the birds are using it and i say youn have been

Hotched

The campaign appear likely to succeed, for over 2,000 guilders were subcribed before -- the end of April, from one fo gion of southem. Holland alone,

Helicopter To Search For Fossils

Capetown, May 23. MA-helicopter is wanted. to aid for hunting Hopefield, in the Capë.......

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