Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1913 — Vases as Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

Vases as Newspapers.

Painted vases and other relics approximately 5,000 years old, which were dug up last year l in Crete by the expedition in charge of Dr. Edith H. Hall, have arrived at the University of Pennsylvania museum after they had been given up as lost in transit. The vases are of the Minoan Age, and, while many of are broken, it will be possible td piece thenp together. As these vases were the Illustrated newspapers of that age they are expected to reveal a good deal of the life and customs of the Cretans in an era as far removed from Pericles and Alexander as the people of today are. They show a high state of civllizar tlon and wholly upset notions, accepted until a few years ago, that the ancient peoples were barbarians almost up to the time of classic Greece. The collection is the largest of Cretan relics in this country, and was shipped from Candia, Crete, just before the outbreak of .the Balkan war. They reached Athens, where all trace of them was lost. — New York Evening Post