In these pottery was brought up from various depths, and beneath the statue of Rameses II at Memphis from a depth of thirty-nine feet.

At the rate of the Nile deposit a careful estimate has declared this to indicate a period of over eleven thousand years.

So eminent a German authority, in geography as Peschel characterizes objections to such deductions as groundless.

However this may be, the general results of these investigations, taken in connection with the other results of research, are convincing.
And, finally, as if to make assurance doubly sure, a series of archaeologists of the highest standing, French, German, English, and American, have within the past twenty years discovered relics of a savage period, of vastly earlier date than the time of Mena, prevailing throughout Egypt.

These relics have been discovered in various parts of the country, from Cairo to Luxor, in great numbers.