12 MAY 1900, Page 25

Excavations in Cyprus. By A. S. Murray, LL.D., and A.

H. Smith, M.A., and H. B. Walters, MA. (British Museum.)— A bequest (by Miss Emma Tarnow Turner) enabled the Trustees to set these experts to work, and the result has been eminently satisfactory. The Museum has been enriched "to an unprece- dented degree" by additions of relics of the Mycentean age. Nothing quite so fine as the Vaphio treasures has been discovered, but the general outcome of the excavations has been highly valuable. Whether the general question of the age of the Mycelia:an civilisation, or at least of some of the objects commonly attributed to it, has been simplified, may be doubted- The ivories, which are particularly numerous and fine, seem especially difficult to fix chronologically.