(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Rosenwald Library at Luxor, Egypt, will be opened tomorrow by Professor James Breasted.
Scholars and archaeologists attached to the various foreign expeditions in upper Egypt, as well as the antiquities department and Egyptian Government officials will be present.
The funds for this building were contributed a year ago by Julius Rosenwald. The European General Educational Board of New York made a grant of $30,000 for books, accompanied by a funded endowment of $250,000 for permanent maintenance of the library and the work of the Oriental Institute of Chicago University. These gifts make permanent the establishment of the first scientific library in upper Egypt.
It is almost a century since Champollion, the first modern man possessing the ability to read the ancient writing of Egypt, began the task of recording and copying the hieroglyphic documents in the monuments of Thebes.
It is in continuance of that task, begun by Champollion and carried forward by his sucessors from Lepsius, two generations ago, to the present day, that this library and the staff whose work will be housed in it have been established among the ruins of Thebes, Prof. Breasted stated.
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