RESEARCHES IN EGYPT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 15, 30 December 1911, Page 4

RESEARCHES IN EGYPT.

The work of the Egyptian Exploration Fund continues, and occasionally strange finds are brought to light. M. NavilJe, who has been carrying on excavations at Ahydos, describes the discovery of a vast necropolis of dogs containing thousands of mummies of those animals. This may throw light, it is thought, on the solution <>f a question which now occupies u t. only Egyptologists hut anthropologists—the origin of the Egyptians. The greyhound, which is plentiful among the mummies, was an animal imported into Egypt from Central Africa, and. The the papyrus plant, also imported, seems to show that part of the pri ,

unlive population cairn 1 from the I p-

per Nile. “Recent researches have sho'.vn that the most ancient dog in Crete, a dog famous in antiquity, is the Egyptian greyhound. V\ e have here another instance of the Egyptian civilisation spreading on the great .Egean island. You see how wo may find in zoology a help for reconstructing the history of very early times.” All the antiquities acquired at Ahydos were sent to America in recognition of the increased support now received from that country. This coming winter the Fund will begin the great enterprise of excavating the Osircion at Ahydos, “which ought to yield treasures of the first importance for the history and religion of ancient Egypt.”