EN THE
RESERVOIR IS EMPTY 269

XXVI. A RELIEF REPRESENTING QUEEN TIY, FROM THE
TOMB OF USERHAT AT THEBES. THIS RELIEF
WAS STOLEN FROM THE TOMB, AND FOUND ITS
WAY TO THE BRUSSELS MUSEUM, WHERE IT IS
SHOWN IN THE DAMAGED CONDITION SEEN IN
PL. XXVII. 282

XXVII. A RELIEF REPRESENTING QUEEN TIY, FROM THE
TOMB OF USERHAT, THEBES. (SEE PL. XXVI.) 293

PART I

THE VALUE OF THE TREASURY.

"History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk
incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell
me by languages and titles a catalogue of the volumes you
have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have
lived. A man shall be the Temple of Fame. He shall walk,
as the poets have described that goddess, in a robe
painted all over with wonderful events and
experiences.... He shall be the priest of Pan, and bring
with him into humble cottages the blessing of the morning
stars, and all the recorded benefits of heaven and
earth."
EMERSON.

CHAPTER I.

THE VALUE OF ARCHAEOLOGY.

The archaeologist whose business it is to bring to light by pick and
spade the relics of bygone ages, is often accused of devoting his
energies to work which is of no material profit to mankind at the
present day. Archaeology is an unapplied science, and, apart from its
connection with what is called culture, the critic is inclined to judge
it as a pleasant and worthless amusement. There is nothing, the critic
tells us, of pertinent value to be learned from the Past which will be
of use to the ordinary person of the present time; and, though the
archaeologist can offer acceptable information to the painter, to the
theologian, to the philologist, and indeed to most of the followers of
the arts and sciences, he has nothing to give to the ordinary layman.

In some directions the imputation is unanswerable; and when the
interests of modern times clash with those of the past, as, for example,
in Egypt where a beneficial reservoir has destroyed the remains of early
days, there can be no question that the recording of the threatened