Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — Women in Ancient Egypt. [ARTICLE]

Women in Ancient Egypt.

Somo one hns discovered an interesting fact about the position oi won|eu in ancient Egypt. An ong tho has-reliots of the Gizeh Museum tho great inonarchs of the earliest ages are found of equal size with their wives and standing on a level with them. A few hundred years later tho figures of the wives are found decreased In si/.e and standing on a lower level than those of the r royal spouses. Still later groups of the most diminutive of wives are found meekly ranged at tho monarch's feet. It has boon Suggested that, as the old rule of retrogression among women is at an end and hor physical status is improving, groups of dimin.Bhed Hgurosof men may, ages henoo, he found at tho feot of women rulers.