Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1911 — Tells of Events 870 B. C. [ARTICLE]

Tells of Events 870 B. C.

Ancient Hebrew Chronicles Have Been Found In Palestine by Prof. George A. Relsner. New York. —After spending the last six years excavating among the ancient ruins in Egypt and Palestine, Prof. George A. Reisner, assistant professor of Egyptology at Harvard university, has returned to America with his wife and little daughter. Professor Reisner was assisted in his work by C. 8. Bishop, an architect, and Prof. O. Bates, an archaeologist. His return to New York marks the close of 14 years' work In Egypt. Last year Professor Reisner carried on extensive excavations among the pyramids and was rewarded by the discovery of nine almost perfect examples of statuary of the fourth dynasty. They were portrait statues of King Mycernioe, in whose reign the third pyramid of Ghisa was built “Ttaeie statues are of alabaster and black slate," said Professor Reisner. “They ere splendid examples of'portrait statuary and more perfect I should say, than a great number of modern attempts along these lines. Four of them are at present in the Boston museum and the remaining five are In the museum at Cairo." Probably the most important discoveries made by Professor Reisner and his party, acoording to his valoa-

tion, are those of ancient Hebrew writings, contemporaneous with the era of Ahab. about 870 B. C., which contain references found in the Bible. These were discovered in excavations made late in 1910 at Samaria in Palestine, which was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel.