The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-23
VAST TREASURES
STILL REMAIN IN
TOMB Of PHARAOH
Scientists Have Only Begun to
Bring Forth Historic OBJ
jects-SepuIGhre Has
Strange Fascination
ny Arthur MEIGALL

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can Newspaper Alliance, London
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Birmingham AgeHerald.)
LUXOR, Egypt, Feb. 22-In view
of the new wealth OF glorious relies
found in the burial chamber of
Pharaoh Tutankhamen it is quite
likely that the work of opening the
shrine and sarcophagus in which the
mummy lies will be postponed until
next season.
The remainder of the present sea-
son will be required for packing the
objects already removed and next
winter the new material will be
tackled with the objects in the as
yet untouched annex to the first
chamber win be taken out. / should
think there is, three or four times
as much still to come out of the
tomb as that already removed and
the work viii continue two or three
years.
Has Year More of Peace.
Thus Tutankhamen has probably Z.
year more, at least, to sleep in peace
before his summons comes, SO let
us leave him in his golden shrine
for little while longer, embodied
by the 10 mothering wings of the
Goddesses Isis and Nephthys.
This amazing sepulchre has a
strange fascination and / was up
in the valley early this morning to
pay a visit to the tomb. 1t is an
extraordinary feeling to leave the
dazzling sunshine and go down into
the stiffness of these rockhewn cham
bers. Suddenly the light and warmth
of the sun are gone, the sounds of
the living world outside silenced, and
one passes in a moment from the
twentieth century after Christ into
the fourteenth century before Christ.
from the strident, active present to
the mute past. 1t is as though the
mind had taken a strange backward
leap and swept swiftly across the
centuries.
On the golden shrine is an in
scription which I had time to read
today. 1t says; "All the gods who
the king, the lord of the two lands Of
Egypt, lord of the creations of the
sun, son of Ra, who loves him Tut
ankhamen--. The rest of the dec
laration is lost in darkness owing
to the closeness of the shrine - the
wall.
Magical Eyes Engraved.
Immediately opposite the entrance
of the burial chamber two magical
eyes are engraved on the golden
shrine or canopy. These are often
seen on sarcophagi and were repre-
sented there so that the dead man
might look out through them from
his prison inside and see all that
goes on. If the ancient magic is
still potent Tutankhamen has been
watching the movement of his dis
turbers these last few days
The right wall of the burial cham
Der itself has large scene painted
upon 1t representing the mummy of
the king resting on the funeral
barque, which is being drawn upon
sledge by priests or mobiles, each
wearing white around the head. Rep
reservations of funeral such as
this are common in the tombs of
the mobiles but unique in a king $
tomb and this painting would of it.
self indicate that he was not born
in the purple.
On the left wall behind the shrine
I could just see today painted fig
ures of apes of the sun like those
of the tomb of King Az. In this
corner there is a gold-covered STAN
dard of the jackal god, who was
called the opener of the paths for
the dead 1t Is leaning up against
the wall and l could not see it
closely but it Is certainly unioue