The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-02-20
TOMB OF QUEEN
TEIE DISCOVERED

/ LONDON. February S.-Theodore NJ
Davis. who discovered the tomb of the
parents of the Egyptian Queen Teie,
has Just made another sensational dis
covery of the tomb and mummy of Teie
herself at Thebes.
The Times, in a long article describ-
ing the tomb, says it is plain square
sepulcher cut out of rock 1t is APP
preached by a descent of twenty steps
and adjoins the tomb of Rameses TX.
1t was covered with about twenty feet
of debris.
Unfortunately the tomb lay in the
bed of water course and the percola-
ton of water has severely damaged
such perishab1e objects as wood and
the mummy itself Apart from this,
however, the tomb is in the same con-
dftion as when it was left by the priests
amid the throes of a religious revolu-
ton which had spent its force before
Moses was born. The tomb bears wit
ness to the blind rage of the victorious
priesthood at Thebes and the intensity
of their hatred toward the hereto
King, whose mother and inspirer was
Teie.
AFTER ucSCTiDtHS tie WOi n VI ucSCCid u
ton. the Times adds that neverthe,
less the Queens jewelry and the sheets
of solid gold with which the sepulcher
was literally filled were left untouch~
ed. Wherever the excavators walked
they :rod upon fragments or gold plate
and golf leaf There was no sarcoph-
agus, but huge satafalque, which
had been torn to pieces by the priests,
had been erected over the mummy of
the Queen
1t was thickly plated with gold in
side and outside, and engraved with
the names and titlesrof Teie and her
son, as well as with representations of
their alteration of the solar disc. 1t is
curious that the whole figure of the
King had been destroyed while that of
his mother had been allowed to remain
unframed. The coffin, with the num-
my within it, had been carried to tho
south side of the tomb. where it lay
upon a bier encrusted with gold and
supported by four lions claws, also of
gold.
The woodwork of the later, unhap-
PLY, had been converted into touch |
wood by the action of the water. The /
coffin, however, was intact, and it is a
superb example of the jewelers. work. |
The wood of which it is composed is |
entirely covered with frame of gold, /
nlaid with lapis lazuli, comedian and |
green glass. The inlay represents for
the most part a pattern of scales, but /
Down the middle runs an inscription
from which it is learned that the coffin |
was made for Teie by her son.
The mummy itself was wrapped from
head to feet in sheets of gold. The
water. which for so many years had been
training through it, had reduced it to
little more than pulp. and it fell to
pieces when it was examined in the |.
presence of several Psychologists on |,
January 20. There were bracelets on
he arms and a necklace of gold beads
Ind ornaments of gold inlaid with pre-
:ious stones round the neck. while the
lead was still encircled by en- object 4
priceless and unique, the imperial
,rown of the Queens of ancient Egypt.
ARMLETS FROM DRUID DAYS ri
LONDON, Feb. IA treasure has
been discovered by workmen digging
n a sand pit at Crawford, Kent. 1t
consists of eight solid gold armlets,
to be of an early British
period long prior to the Christian era.
A number of bones were found in the
pit, which leads to the belief that It
vas burying place of ancient Britons.
The value of the gold in the arnIets
s $500, but their antiquity and ASSOC
cations make them priceless.
BALKS AT DISARMAMENT.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. THE
Novoe Vremya announces today Rus
iia's attitude toward the clauses DEAL
ng with the Drago doctrine and dis
armament which it has been proposed
o add to the program of The Hague
The Novoe Vremya says
hat Russia's original program has
,een accepted by all the Powers.
AS to the two suggested clauses, the
)rago theory does not conflict with
2ussia's interests, for she has no fin
Incial interests in the South Amer
can republics. Moreover, any increase
n the authority of the United States
n the New World is to Russia's profit
The fate of the Pacific Ocean is as yet
and only the United States
an struggle for the interests of the
White race there.
Russia, the Novoe Vremya says, is
opposed to dealing with the disarma-
nent question in the conference, and
deserves that Great Britain, which is
bile to reduce it's naval budget, is in +
ifferent position from Russia. The
lovoe Vremya adds:
1--WE must openly declare that the
rganization of the army and the re- /
reation of the feet will demand from
IS very great financial Efforts
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