Petrie's finds of late Mycenaean objects and foreign graves at Medinet Gurob.* * One man who was buried here bore the name An-Tursha, "Pillar of the Tursha." The Tursha were a people of the Mediterranean, possibly Tylissians of Crete. These excavations at Hawara, Illahun, Kahun, and Gurob were carried out in the years 1887-9. Since then Prof.

The subtle method of which they served to assure the validity was employed in 1887-9 by M. Dunér to test and extend Carrington's and Spörer's conclusions as to the anomalous nature of the sun's axial movement. His observations for the purpose, made with a fine diffraction-spectroscope, just then mounted at the observatory of Upsala, were published in 1891.