The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . rages of certain taxes due from thesacerdotal body. Among other things, the priests sayof Ptolemy that he was pious toward the gods, heameliorated the life of man, he was full of generouspiety, he showed forth with all his might his senti-ments of humanity. He lightened the taxes, re-stored the temple revenues, discarded promotion feesfrom priests, and renewed temple services. Thesegrateful priests had ordered their memorial decree tobe inscribed in the sacred characters of Egypt, in thevernacular, and in Greek. It was soon
The monuments and the Old Testament : evidence from ancient records . rages of certain taxes due from thesacerdotal body. Among other things, the priests sayof Ptolemy that he was pious toward the gods, heameliorated the life of man, he was full of generouspiety, he showed forth with all his might his senti-ments of humanity. He lightened the taxes, re-stored the temple revenues, discarded promotion feesfrom priests, and renewed temple services. Thesegrateful priests had ordered their memorial decree tobe inscribed in the sacred characters of Egypt, in thevernacular, and in Greek. It was soon conjecturedthat the two inscriptions standing above the Greektold the same story. Such being the case, the valueof the document was at once perceived. It was care-fully copied, and packed for shipment. But the vic-tory of the British at Alexandria, and the surrenderof the city in 1801, transferred this treasure to thehands of the British commissioner, W. E. Hamilton,one of the most distinguished scholars of that stone was shipped to England and deposited in. THE ROSETTA STONE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM EGYPTS TREASURES TO-DAY 43 ilization, we cannot object to the probable existenceof the Hebrews, who belong to a comparativelyyounger age. There are, then, some points in whichthe Old Testament seems to be true. Egypt,wherever mentioned, is no longer simply a name, butthe home of a highly civilized and vigorous people,dating from 5,000 B. C, a people, too, whose fortunesfor centuries run parallel to the Hebrews of the OldTestament. 25. Egypt is, to-day, yielding rich rewards to herexcavators. She is turning over her vast storehouseof antiquities to the patient and long-suffering archae-ologist. The Egypt Exploration Fund alone has pub-lished more than a dozen volumes descriptive of thefinds of its excavators since the organization of thesociety in 1882, These are full of important draw-ings, inscriptions, and portraits of the most valuablekind. In this mass of material we are f
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