Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1881 — The Stone Age of Egypt. [ARTICLE]

The Stone Age of Egypt.

Much interest has always been attached by anthropologists to the stone age of Egypt on account of its bearing on the antiquity of man. Hitherto tho finds of stone implements have been purely superficial, Imt in March last Gen. Pitt-Rivers, President of the Anthropol >gical Institute discovered worked flints two or three meters deep in stratified gravel aikl mud hour Thebe*, The

gravel bad become so indurated in Egyptian times that they were able to out square-topped tombs supported by square pillars in it, and these have remained in their origiual condition to this day. Some of the implements were chiseled out of the gravel in the sides of these tombs.— Nature.