THE TEMPLE OF PTAH
OVER AX ACRE EXCAVATED. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] LONDON, May 12. The British Ar; liacolcgical School lias discovered a large cemetery at Tarkhan. 40 miles from Cairo, in which the burials are s’vcn thousand years old, revealing the custom cf offering fod to the dead. The members of the party ,a’so cleared over :.n acre of the great Temple of Ptah. Tins temple is said to have been built by Menes, the founder of Memphis and the first king of the first dynasty of Egypt.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3831, 14 May 1913, Page 5
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