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Scientists, including Professor Jolly, estimate ancient bricks in Nile valley at 12,000-14,000 years old via sediment layers; Burmeister dates first humans in Egypt to 72,000 years ago, Draper European glacial witness over 25,000 years ago. [Chicago Herald.]
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In making soundings in the slime soil of the Nile valley, two baked bricks were discovered, one at a depth of twenty and the other twenty-four yards. If we estimate the thickness of the annual deposit formed by the river at eight inches a century, says Professor Jolly, we must assign to the first of these brick an age of 12,000 years, and to the second that of 14,000. By the means of analogous calculations, Burmeister supposes 72,000 years to have elapsed since the first appearance of man upon the soil of Egypt, and Draper attributes to the European man who witnessed the last glacial epoch an antiquity of more than 25,000 years.
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Two baked bricks discovered in Nile valley soil at depths of twenty and twenty-four yards; Professor Jolly estimates their ages at 12,000 and 14,000 years based on annual river deposit of eight inches per century. Burmeister calculates 72,000 years since first man in Egypt; Draper attributes over 25,000 years to European man witnessing last glacial epoch.