Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-17

ago IHe TOydl luietdi Soi tSse VI
Pharoah Tut-Ankh-Amen march
ed in solem state, the men of a
new civilization today made prep
arations for fetching the monarch
out of the tomb where he has
slumbered for 50 centuries.
The aperature knocked through
the sealed door to the inner mau-
soleum has been closed up until
al lis in readiness for the Off
cial ceremonial opening on Sun
day.
The aperature knocked through
the sealed door of the inner
mausoleum has been closed up
until all is in readiness for the
official ceremonial opening on
Sunday.
When Howard Carter and the
other excavators entered the in
ner tomb yesterday they found
an undreamed-of wealth of Egyp-
tan furniture, idols and othe'
objects If incalculable historical
value.
The doorway from the cute
room-now cleared of everything
save two life-size statues of the
king which has been boxed up to
prevent damage-led to a room
bewr in the solid rock, and al
most entirely taken up with an
immense sarcophagus
The sides of his sarcophagus
apparently made of wool, CAV
within two feet of the walls Of
the eel. There was barely room
TO pass around it. It's surface
ent edifice, covered with carv-
I'd. IN one end folding doors
we're found. For the first time.
since Tut Ankh-Amen was laid to
rest sId the portals closed by tn
gen-le hands of the Egyptian
priest these doors were Open"d
They revealed another magnifi-
cent .di6ce, covered with cary
inps. and crusted with gilded or
naments. This house of the roy
al dead, which has stood in th'
darL of the subterranean cham
Der since long before Christ was
born. is one of the most Won
derfuI pieces of ancient Egyptian
ant work ever discovered. II evil
denty consists of several boXes
or canopies. one within the other.
Insiae the last one. the mummy of
Pharroah will be found, it Is be-
lieved.
The work of dismantling these
boxes will be very difficult be-
cause OF the limited space and tn"
intense heat. 1t is necessary t.
work in the glare of flood lights
which increase the Sitting at
mosphere in the underground
temple of death. There is hardly
any room for workers engaged in
taking the sarcaphagus to pieces.
How the Egyptians MANAGED to
build the elaborate and costly
tomb within tomb is unknown.
Skilled workers must have Eut 1t
together bit by bit in the re-
stricted space cut out OF tn
rock where there is no elbow
room at all. The royal mummy
was probably placed there first,
and then the outer shells were
erected around it.
In addition to the sarcophagus,
the tomb contained ilte-llke
statue of cat, regarded as sa-
cred in ancient Egypt, also cano
pic vase, funeral vases and crnS
small caskets thought to hold lit
tie images of servants who were
to do Tut-Ankh-Amen's work in
the next world, and many other
objects placed there to be Of as
sistance to him in his journey
into eternity.
The explorers, after making I
brief examination of all this
threw the beams Of their electric
torches behind the sarcophaguS
and saw revealed in the glare =
great, black doorway leading INTO
another chamber, even deeper II
the side of the valley. This door
way had no portal and had never
been closed.
Hasty examination OF this new
cbamber showed it was piled
with priceless treasures inciud-
ing a number of chariots, intact
shrines and objects beyond the
power of money to buy.
The investigators left these ar
tieles 70 the more closely inspect
I'd later. They climbed out
through the doorway TO the ante
chamber which everything has
been taken save the two statues.
TIL expert believe that tomb
robbers did not penetrate to the
inner chambers, and that the OBJ
jects there are placed just where
they were deposited by the mem