Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1906 — HISTORY IS 1,000 YEARS OLDER. [ARTICLE]

HISTORY IS 1,000 YEARS OLDER.

Prof. Jame* H. Breasted Tell* of New Discovery In Nile Volley. One thousand years has been addled to the autheitic history of the world by Prof. James 11. Breasted of the University of Chicago, who has just returned from ah exi>edit ion to the Upper Nile. The professor and his associates discovered that the calendar was begun in 4241 B. C. and an elaborate article in the current issue of the Biblical World tells all about it. In the period from 140-141 to 143-144 A. D. the calendar coincided with the seasons and the rising of the Sosthis took place on the first day of the calendar year. An entire revolution was completed ar that time. “That revolution must have begun 1,460 years earlier —that is. in 1320 B. C-,” says Prof. Breasted. “The next earlier revolution must have begun in 2780 FL “C. — that is: .at about the beginning of the ■age at which we areifirst able to observe contemporary indications of the shift. "This carries us 1,460 years back of their coincidence in the old kingdom—that is, the calendar was introduced in the middle of the forty-third century B. C. (4241 41. C.). This is the oldest fixed date in history.”