TIME AND CHANCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 22 June 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

TIME AND CHANCE.

RESTORING ANCIENT QUEEN. Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt, after 33 centuries of oblivion, has been restored to her rightful place by archaeologists of a world, the Western world, that Egypt and Hatshepsut never knew. The Americans have dug up her broken monuments with as much zeal as they cut the Panama Canal. They have removed 100,000 tons of rubbish in two years to lay bare Queen Hatshepsut's granite sphinxes and other sculptured archaic figures 6f Egyptiaii art. Queen Hatshepsut was a great and masterful woman, a Queen Elizabeth of her day, which was in the fourteenth century before Christ. She restored the power and finances of Egypt, she built a great temple and filled it with masterpieces, and in order to keep her power she married her nephew. When the queen died the nephew, Thothmes the Third, who had been too ' long overshadowed by his powerful wife, took a mean revenge. He struck out Hatshepsutr's name from the monuments. He broke up all her statuary and flung it into a disused quarry. For all these hundreds of years the rubbish of Egypt has heen completing the defacement of Hatshepsut's work, the obliteration of her memory. Now the Americans come and restore both, to j their ancient place. Truly of queens and I kings, pluiraohs and princes—Time apd Chance, happenath to. tbem-all j