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THE BURIED CITIES OF AXCIENT EGYPT.
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of the route of the Exodus have been defined ; an important
chapter in the history of Greek art and Greek epigraphy has
been recovered from oblivion; and an archaeological survey
of the Delta has been made, nearly all the larger mounds
having been measured and mapped. This survey is now
about to be carried out on a much extended scale, covering
the whole of Egypt, and including copies of inscriptions,
photographs of monuments, triangulations, careful descrip-
tions of the condition of the ruins, etc., etc. For this impor-
tant work two specially trained archaeologists will be de-
spatched every season by the Fund.
It was, as I have said, in 1SS3 that the Egypt Exploration
Fund began its labors in the Delta, the first explorer sent out
by the society being the eminent Egpytologist. M. Naville, of
Geneva. M. JSaville selected as the scene of his first excava-
tion a celebrated mound in the Wady Tinnilat, between Za-
gazig and Isma'ilia; a mound which Lepsius had conjecturally
identified with " Eaamses," one of the twin " treasure-cities "
built by the forced labor of the Hebrew colonists in the time
of the Great Oppression. Of these it is said in the first chap-
ter of Exodus that " they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities,
Pithom and Eaamses "; by " treasure - cities " meaning for-
tified magazines, such as the Egyptians were wont to erect
for the safe custody of grain
and military stores.
Xow, the South-eastern Delta
was for some five hundred years
as much the father-land of the
descendants of Jacob as modern
Egypt is now the father-land
of the descendants of Amr's
Arab hordes. The pleasant past-
ures of Goshen were theirs by
right of gift and settlement.
There thev increased and multi-
-l- J ji ., „ ■ n.AN OF THE "TltKASL-RE-CIIY"
plied, and there for centuries 0F pithom.
they dwelt, a favored and a A, A: Excavated store-chambers
U
of the route of the Exodus have been defined ; an important
chapter in the history of Greek art and Greek epigraphy has
been recovered from oblivion; and an archaeological survey
of the Delta has been made, nearly all the larger mounds
having been measured and mapped. This survey is now
about to be carried out on a much extended scale, covering
the whole of Egypt, and including copies of inscriptions,
photographs of monuments, triangulations, careful descrip-
tions of the condition of the ruins, etc., etc. For this impor-
tant work two specially trained archaeologists will be de-
spatched every season by the Fund.
It was, as I have said, in 1SS3 that the Egypt Exploration
Fund began its labors in the Delta, the first explorer sent out
by the society being the eminent Egpytologist. M. Naville, of
Geneva. M. JSaville selected as the scene of his first excava-
tion a celebrated mound in the Wady Tinnilat, between Za-
gazig and Isma'ilia; a mound which Lepsius had conjecturally
identified with " Eaamses," one of the twin " treasure-cities "
built by the forced labor of the Hebrew colonists in the time
of the Great Oppression. Of these it is said in the first chap-
ter of Exodus that " they built for Pharaoh treasure-cities,
Pithom and Eaamses "; by " treasure - cities " meaning for-
tified magazines, such as the Egyptians were wont to erect
for the safe custody of grain
and military stores.
Xow, the South-eastern Delta
was for some five hundred years
as much the father-land of the
descendants of Jacob as modern
Egypt is now the father-land
of the descendants of Amr's
Arab hordes. The pleasant past-
ures of Goshen were theirs by
right of gift and settlement.
There thev increased and multi-
-l- J ji ., „ ■ n.AN OF THE "TltKASL-RE-CIIY"
plied, and there for centuries 0F pithom.
they dwelt, a favored and a A, A: Excavated store-chambers