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OTHER EXPLORATIONS.
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Just as we go to press a letter from Egypt
says that the tomb and mummy of Amenophis
IV., the "heretic king," have been discovered at
Tel-el-Amarna! The Arabs tore the mummy in
pieces, and have been offering its fragments for
sale, with numerous trinkets in ivory, glass, ala-
baster, bronze, and gold. How the once niighty
Egypt has fallen, unable to protect the sepul-
chres of her kings ! An English protectorate,
too !
OTHER EXPLORATIONS.
Recent tours have been made in Upper
Egypt, in the vicinity of Assouan, with results
of great interest to the student of Egyptology,
but of such a nature that no adequate account
of popular interest can be given in the space at
our disposal. The reader is referred to Mr.
Petrie's "A Season in Egypt, 1887," and to
two articles by Mr. F. L. Griffith, in the
" Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archae-
ology " for 1889.
329
Just as we go to press a letter from Egypt
says that the tomb and mummy of Amenophis
IV., the "heretic king," have been discovered at
Tel-el-Amarna! The Arabs tore the mummy in
pieces, and have been offering its fragments for
sale, with numerous trinkets in ivory, glass, ala-
baster, bronze, and gold. How the once niighty
Egypt has fallen, unable to protect the sepul-
chres of her kings ! An English protectorate,
too !
OTHER EXPLORATIONS.
Recent tours have been made in Upper
Egypt, in the vicinity of Assouan, with results
of great interest to the student of Egyptology,
but of such a nature that no adequate account
of popular interest can be given in the space at
our disposal. The reader is referred to Mr.
Petrie's "A Season in Egypt, 1887," and to
two articles by Mr. F. L. Griffith, in the
" Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archae-
ology " for 1889.