Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1920 — Dig for Egyptian Temples. [ARTICLE]

Dig for Egyptian Temples.

An appeal for funds to carry on the excavation of Egyptian antiquities on a larger scale than ever before contemplated was sent out by the Egyptian Exploration Fund from its American headquarters at Boston, the New York Times states. About SIO,OOO Is needed to reopen the excavation of ancient civilization where many relics were found before the war stopped the work. The appeal says: “Two monumental undertakings are the clearance of the eleventh and eighteenth dynasty temples of Delr el Banari, visited by every tourist at Thebes, and at Abydos, the Osirelon, the temple of the underworld, dedicated by Merenptah, Pharaoh of the Exodus, and richly decorated by him with texts from the ‘Book of the Dead.’ This great excavation, halted by the war, employed 683 fellaheen (native workmen) and awaits completion. It is the one remaining architectural puzzle of Egypt”