San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-08
The Once 0Uer
BY ii. 1. Phillips.
o. HOWE DUNN REPORTS ON
THE EGYPTIAN DESERT
DISCOVERIES.

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Luxor, Egypt: Everybody seems tt
be finding something in the Egyptian
desert. More lost articles are being
recovered there than in a metropolis
tan city during Christmas shopping
The other day an explorer found an
obelisk over there. And another one
found the tomb of an Egyptian king.
II have seen both, and how anybody
could have lost such articles in the
first place is very mystifyng TO me.
Nothing would seem more difficult
| TO miSlay or drop than an Obelisk.
| You'd think the owner would have
heard it tinkle when it fell.
/ know that if ! had an obelisk on
my hands, | simply couldn't get rid
Of it. Yet the ancient Egyptians were
| very skilful in this respect. / find,
and could lose pyramid or a ten
room tomb as easily as the man of
today loses a cuff-link or a telephone
| number.
The most recent discovery is that
of the tomb of fellow named
Tutankhamcn. who was king OF
Egypt fifty centuries ago. Until they
dug it up the other afternoon few
people know Tutankhamen ever had
tomb. The fact it had been lost
was never suspected.
Psychologists had been digging all
around TutS place for hundreds of
years without finding it. Howard
Carter, an American, and Lord Car
narvon of England, who finally un-
earthed the tomb. had been digging
thereabout for eight years. That's a
whale Of long time to dig without
finding something. | dug thirty min
utes once for some fish bait. and !
remember | gave w in disgust.
YaluGblcs worth S15.OOOOOO were
found in King Tut's mortuary parIors
when opened, however. proving that
if man has talent for digging there
is no place like Egypt in which to
apply it.
Even when Carter first unparthed
the tomb he didn't know what he
had put his foot in. He lust STUN
blcd over something while digging.
and it was some time before he
realized he had dug M an Egyptian
tomb that was not in any telephone
book Or business guide.
] visited the tomb yesterday. Be-
Iieye me. Old King Tut was as Ritzy
King as was ever done up in yeast
cakes and calico wrappers. In his
tomb / found a throne gliStening with
precious stones, chairs and tables of
gold and ivory and enormous beds
and divans carved out of ivory and
studded with jewels Tut was no
pikcr when it came to sleeping
equipment.
There. were beautiful aIabaster
vases, statues. gold and silver boxes
filled with treasures. and som, nifty
looking cigarette trays and things.
all piled about as if an auction sale
mad beech in progress when sand
storm came up and ruined every
thing.
"A great supply Of .mummified
meats and poultry was found in one
room. Indicating that THE "foRS who
buried Tut were no mean providers |
The ancient Egyptians always had
the idea n. king or queen might be
onl Y fooling. just to see. what kind of
a funeral they'd get. and that after
the intcrmcnt they might get i'm and !
go TO the ice box to see il there was !
anything there for a cold lunch.
The tomb was really a considerable I,
place. It had something like twelve |
rooms, four baths. and kitchpncttc. |
and was completely furnished and |
for light housekeeping. |
When king died they saw that he |
had buried all his possessions with |
him, including his chariots.
To me this seems like burying a
prominent citizen together with his !
apartment, wardrobe. garage. and !
which is the height of
,illinesS.
looked over some of King Tut's |
clothes and found two ticket stubs to
the Egyptian Little Club. pro-
gramme of the Nile Cabaret. some
pictures of chorus girls in the Nine
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