The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-28
FAMOUS EXPLORER
TELLS DISCOVERIES
FOR AGE-HER RAJ D
Funeral ParaphernaIia of Tut
ankhamen Regarded as
Most Wonderful Collec-
ton Ever Discovered
BY ARTHUR e. P. b. wEIGALL

BY ARTHUR E. T. Ii. WElGALL
(Copyright, 1928, by North Ameri-
can Newspaper Alliance for The Age
Herald)
~ LUXOR. Egypt, Jan. 27.-Speculs-
ton concerning the several squares
of folded material found in the first
chamber of the tomb OF Tutankh-
amen was dissipated today by the
visit of DIR. Alan Gardiner, greatest
English authority on ancient bsyp-
tian language and script. This ma
terial. which looked like papyrus,
was believed to be documents OIL
historic interest. but upon examine
ton turned out to be simply foloeu
table napkins.
Dr Gardiner, however, found many
short Inscriptions on several op9ectS
in the tomb which were illumiratlns'
ON some of the oddly-carVed ooAee
were interesting lists OF eonteIlss
which have added some new sWoi 10
to our knowledge of the lahs u"s
Fortunately DR.. Gardiner nad nv
come all the way from Bnglano
pressly for the purpose OF seems
these supposed documents OIL psp
rus. He and Prof. James -.astoI
Breas ted. director of the orten.aA
i.stitute of the University of chi
caoo are out here working IN the
SsaIro museum transcribing anu
tranelating books of the dead, VIII
ton ON the many collins OF Wna
- called the Middle Kingdom, low
q now exhibited there. rms
will keen him busy for several
months.
Mast Wonderful Yet Found
Gardiner tells me that. in spite
- GOOD deal of wild talk, the
fnneraI paraphernalia of Tutankn,
men is really the most wonderful
collection of treasures ever Iounu
in Egypt. He was particulars
struck. he SAYS, by a wooden taskee'
On fine sides and lid of which arc
most exquisite little paintings, IKE
finest miniatures, representing nun.
inq scenes in the desert and pursuit
of ostriches, gazelles, wild asses
hares and so on. The WOODWORK
boweyer, DIR. Gardiner added, was IN
.. had state of preservation ana ene
only wav of saving II was by pour
ing liouid paraffin and wax over lhe
wbole thing to solidify it. nave
5s,ccassfully tried this same methoo
in the past with painted ooJeo1S
vbich were rotten and when 1ne
way had been melted off again ehe
colors looked rather fresher imam
hefore. but II is nervous work ladins
hot wax over priceless WORKS Oh a. -
The opening of the sealed burial
chamber will start as soon as LII -
carnavon arrives from Engiaho.
while examining the outer chaniosl
TODAY l found three very small seooi'
apparently made for children.
Carter. understand, thinks II posi-
HE. therefore, that Tutaakaihen :
children may be buried with MN ~ :,
the inner chamber, but against this
{ conjecture is the. known tact .na
Z his legal queen was childless at n.s
death. She, however, had some ~
t1s sisters and the stools may have
belonged to them.
In the tomb of Prince yuma, whicn
we found some years ago, was
chi1d's small chair and inscriptions
on II showed that it had been pre-
scented to the prince by MS granu
: daughter, an aunt or Iulannn
amen's queen. Similarly these ut
fle stools may simply be presents
and the bodies of the children, VINO
ever they were. will not necessarily
be found in the tomb. unoer s.anu
that the DOQy OF DOoioS >,
be left undisturbed in the vault unlil l
Elliot Smith, professor OF anatomy
of the University college, LONDON
greatest living expert on mummies'
is able to come out and see them
in position.
specuIation About Tomb
AS the time draws near when ~
will be possible to open the seaIeo
inner chamber of the tomb or the
ancient Egyptian King Tut-Ankh-
Amen, recently discovered by LORD
Carnarvon and Howard Carter, the
= american Psychologist, there Is
much speculation as to what VIII De
I found IN it. Presumably the myster-
( itus inner chamber is the burial
chamber in which the great Pharaoh
T, lies, but of this we cannot be apso-
! lutely certain.
The now famous tomb, it must be
understood, is not intact. 1t shows
+ evident signs of having been en-
tered by thieves and then sealed ur
1 again by officials of the metropolis al
! later date.
I The robbery must have taken place
/ very coon after the funerals. e
: 1850. For generation or two later
+, the tomb seems to have been lost tc
T sight and recollection beneath many