Scarabs Tell a Story.
Two interesting scarabs were recently unearthed in Bubastis, in lower Egypt, one of which is now lodged in a museum in Paris, the other in the Royal Museum in Brussels. They are inscribed with the particulars of the voyage of an envoy Of -King Neehao 11. in 599 8.C.-in exploration of the coasts of Africa. The envoy managed to effect a complete circle of the continent, arriving at the Red Sea He was quite lost most of the time.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 19, 4 November 1908, Page 45
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83Scarabs Tell a Story. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 19, 4 November 1908, Page 45
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