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THE LAND OF THE PHARAOHS.
and Tanis have already been referred to upon pages 25 and 26 of this volume. Dur-
ing- 1885 and 1886 Mr. Flinders Petrie has discovered and explored the sites of
Naukratis, and at Tel Defenneh, about sixteen miles from Tanis, of Pharaoh's House in
Tahpanhes. The Fund have issued a Memoir on the former, which is a most interest- '
ing discovery. The latter will come home more closely to all students of the Bible, inas-
much as it reveals to us the site of an un-
usual and important conjunction of events
in the history of Egypt, Palestine, and Baby-
lonia. Granting that Mr. Petrie is correct in
identifying rums of a massive quadrangular
building at Tel Defenneh, the Pelusiac
Daphnse ot the Greek writers, with the palace
of Pharaoh at Tahpanhes, we have recov-
ered the place whither the daughters of Zed-
ekiah fled, whither Jeremiah himself came,
whither also came Nebuchadnezzar,by whom,
in all probability, the place was destroyed.
This discovery throws considerable light
upon the historical events described in
Jeremiah xxxvii.-xlvii.
M. Naville has also investigated the ruins
and cemeteries at Tel-el-Yahudeyeh, twen-
ty-two miles north-east of Cairo, and inclines
to the belief that it was the site of the city
of Onia, founded by the Jewish High Priest
Onias, abou" 163 b.c.
The combined results of excavations car-
ried on in Egypt, the more accurate transla-
tion of documents and monuments, and the
careful investigation of the history and
literature of Egypt, are now enabling us to
form much clearer and much more accurate
ideas about the people themselves, their
wonderful story, their complex religious
HEAD OF QUEEN NEFERT-ARI, WIFE OF RAMESES II. . . . , j 1
(From a sculpture at Abu shnbei.) system, their social customs, and the part
they have played in the development of man-
kind. The more fully we can get to understand the history and beliefs of the Egyptians
the more clearly shall we be able to discern their influence upon the still more marvel-
ous history of that people, among whom in the fulness of time came He "who His own
self bore our sins in His body on the tree," and who died that he might "gather
together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad."
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and Tanis have already been referred to upon pages 25 and 26 of this volume. Dur-
ing- 1885 and 1886 Mr. Flinders Petrie has discovered and explored the sites of
Naukratis, and at Tel Defenneh, about sixteen miles from Tanis, of Pharaoh's House in
Tahpanhes. The Fund have issued a Memoir on the former, which is a most interest- '
ing discovery. The latter will come home more closely to all students of the Bible, inas-
much as it reveals to us the site of an un-
usual and important conjunction of events
in the history of Egypt, Palestine, and Baby-
lonia. Granting that Mr. Petrie is correct in
identifying rums of a massive quadrangular
building at Tel Defenneh, the Pelusiac
Daphnse ot the Greek writers, with the palace
of Pharaoh at Tahpanhes, we have recov-
ered the place whither the daughters of Zed-
ekiah fled, whither Jeremiah himself came,
whither also came Nebuchadnezzar,by whom,
in all probability, the place was destroyed.
This discovery throws considerable light
upon the historical events described in
Jeremiah xxxvii.-xlvii.
M. Naville has also investigated the ruins
and cemeteries at Tel-el-Yahudeyeh, twen-
ty-two miles north-east of Cairo, and inclines
to the belief that it was the site of the city
of Onia, founded by the Jewish High Priest
Onias, abou" 163 b.c.
The combined results of excavations car-
ried on in Egypt, the more accurate transla-
tion of documents and monuments, and the
careful investigation of the history and
literature of Egypt, are now enabling us to
form much clearer and much more accurate
ideas about the people themselves, their
wonderful story, their complex religious
HEAD OF QUEEN NEFERT-ARI, WIFE OF RAMESES II. . . . , j 1
(From a sculpture at Abu shnbei.) system, their social customs, and the part
they have played in the development of man-
kind. The more fully we can get to understand the history and beliefs of the Egyptians
the more clearly shall we be able to discern their influence upon the still more marvel-
ous history of that people, among whom in the fulness of time came He "who His own
self bore our sins in His body on the tree," and who died that he might "gather
together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad."
162