Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 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. Reisner. 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. S. Bishop, an architect, and Prof. O. Bates, an archaeologist. His return to New York marks the close of 14 years’ work in Egypt. hast 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 Mycemlos, in whose reign the third pyramid of Ghlza was built. “These statues are of alabaster and black slate.” said Professor Reisner. “They are splendid examples of portrait statuary and more perfect, I should say, than a great number of 1 modem attempts along these Unas. 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, according to his valua-

tlon, 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 mafia late In 393 0 at Samaria in Palestine, which was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel.