The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-17

storehouse or the last resting place
Of some cheap two-dollar official.
After descending some twenty feet
we came to small chamber which was
rudely frescoed about half Of the way
around Z. -
"Do you know why he left this Job
unfn1shed9' asked Mr. Peasley: "He
knew that some day or other an in
quisitive foreigner would be prowling
around here trying to uncover ancient
treasures, and he put this measly little
antechamber here to throw Mr.. Archie
ologist off the scent He wanted it
to appear that the man who was buried
| here had been so poor that he couldn 7
complete the decorations. And now
still. Come with me down this second
flight of steps to the second chamber. -
j. j. j.
He led us down another flight to a
tall chamber about the size Of freight
car stood on end.
"When the French explorers opened
this place in 1898 the chamber which
you are now inspecting seemed to, be
the end Of the tunnel" continued Mr..
Peasley. "The four sidewalks were
perfectly smooth and unbroken, but
down at the bottom they found a pit
which had been filed with heavy stones.
| They supposed, of course, that this was
the mummy pit, and that if they re-
moved the stones they would find some
royal remains at the other end of the
hole. So they worked day after day,
lifting out the boulders,- and finally
they came to the end Of the pit and
found they had drawn a blank.
Naturally they were. stumped: They
thought they had been exploring a
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joke. One of. the professors was not
satisfied. He felt sure there must be
royal cadaver tucked in somewhere
about the premises, sos he took$a ladder
and climbed around and began tapping
all over the walls of this second cham.
ber.s What do you thinkq He dis
covered that the wall had a&hoHow
sound just opposite the tunnel at which
they had entered. So he used a bat
real tomb. Yes, sir; these two outer
chambers with their cheap stencil fires
Goes and fake mummy pit, had been 8
blind. After the <Frenchmen got thru
this sealed-up wall they found them
selves in a. great big corridor leading
to an assembly hall decorated to thu
limit. from which another corridor lee
to still another large chamber sur
rounded by smaller apartments, and il
this last room, III d great; sDlE gIaH1tt
coffin, they discovered nobody NOR.
OF less than old Amenhotep himself
He had been absolutely secure in hi
privacy since 400 B. G. = I will nov
show you what they we done to him.
i We passed over a narrow woode1
bridge and entered the tunnel beyon'
the second chamber. The whole plac
was brilliantly. Illuminated and on
could readily believe that he was in /
modern hallway decorated In the mos
gorgeous Egyptian style. The border
ing frescoes and the historical paint
ings were as fresh in tone as if the,
had been put on only yesterday. On
Of the larger chambers looked exactl,
like the gaudy "oriental apartment
of Partisan New York hotel, and W
shouldn't have been surprised or dis
pleased TO see a waiter come in wit
! tray full Of cool drinks.
: ]. + +
! At last we came to the tomb cham
Der, and there in a deep hollow, with
3 modern wooden railing around it, Re
: clined thu. great King Amenh,otep, wit