Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1917 — Art of Egypt. [ARTICLE]

Art of Egypt.

Art history, particularly in the branch of painting, has undergone some radical revisions in the last quarter of a century, as a direct result of Egyptian archaeological research. Painting, as we know it. today, is at least 3,000 years old —and we have found the originals to* prove it. The site of ancient Thebes,'now represented by the modern villages of Karnak and Luxor, has been .one. of the richest quarries worked by modern scholarly excavators of various nationalities. Ten years ago the New York Metropolitan museum’s expedition established at Thebes a Special school or atelier for the purpose of copying and recording the brilliant-painted scenes and inscriptions uncovered in the royal tomb chapels of Egypt’s rulers of more than thirty centuries ago.