DISCOVERY OF A NEW RACE.

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

DISCOVERY OF A NEW RACE.

; ? Professor Flinders Petrie's recent archaeological excavations to tho north of Thebes, in Egypt, have, it 1 appears, resulted in a discovery of a race of which hiterhto nothing has \ been known, so far, at any rate, as Egypt is concerned. This remarkably interesting announcement (says the " Home News ") was made in the course of a lecture at the Edin- , burgh Royal Society. On an elei vated plateau, 30 miles north of ' Thebes, Mr. Petrie found a small '¦ temple and town, which he identifies with Juvenal's Ombi in the fifl teenth Satire. Nearly 2000 tombs i were opened and examined by Mr. Petrie and his companions, and in these not a single Egyptian object L was found. Ample evidence was , forthcoming that the dead belonged . to a race which was not Egyptian, and Mr Petrie concludes that he has discovered the remains of the people ; who overthrew Egyptian civilisation i about 3000 B.C. "Whence this race ' came it is impossible to determine. ' Mr. Petrie's view is that it was a | warlike race of the Libyan or Amori ite type. The discovery will turn i the attention of archeoologists along a new and fascinating path of enquiry, which should end in the filling-up of one of the gaps of early history, and may involve the re-writing of a cou- ! siderable portion of that hitherto 1 regarded as reasonably reliable.