SECRETS OF THE SPHINX.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15252, 15 March 1913, Page 5 (Supplement)

SECRETS OF THE SPHINX.

, ♦ .. TEMPLE DEDICATED TO THE SUN The results of the investigations of Professor G. A. Reisner, the Harvard Egyptologist, on that mysterious Egyptian monument known as the Sphinx, have been comunicated to the authorities of the Harvard Semitic Museum and ' the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Inside the Sphinx the professor found a temple dedicated to the sun. It is older than any of the pyramids, and its date is somewhere ; about 6000 8.C., the„. most ancient in Egyptian history. Mena, or Menes, as his name is sometimes spelled, was the first king of Egypt of whom modern scientists have discovered historic record. Tho tomb of Mena, the king who made himself a god and who fashioned the Sphinx, is also within it. There are tunnels leading into caverns which have not yet been penetrated, for the work has only been going on for six months. The Sphinx is carved out. of the natural rock, but within are the caves and buildings of a city of gold which was, perhaps, once open to the air. Inside the Sphinx are also tiny pyramids,- although, the Sphinx was built long before the Great Pyramids. A pyramid in those days was a sundial, according to Professor Reisner, and the Sphinx was a sun god. The pyramid of Cheops is an absolutely accurate timekeeper. According to Professor Reisner, Egypt of to-day is one vast city, the edge of which has been scratched and the interior of._ which- probably never will be disclosed. Professor Reisner hopes to discover among the relics of the Sphinx the secret* of the Egyptian priests, whose magic is believed to We been marvelio"" »