The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-25
KING TUT'S VAULT
 MAY YET D|vULGE WRITTEN HISTORY
Scientists Hope to Find Rec ords in Chests to Be
 Opened

VALLEY OF THE KINGS, LUXOR, Egypt March 24. = (By Associated Press )-Among the wealth of antiqi- ties found in the tomb of Tutank- hamen. no trace has yet been Ciscov- cred of a single scrap of papyri that will throw any light on the obscure history of Egypt during that mon- arch's reign. Indeed, not even the heroglyphic inscriptions and pictori- al legends on the walls of the nor tuary chamber reveal any intelligible facts concerning the life and achieve ments of the king who ruled the Nile 1850 years before Christ.
 Most of the 80 or more other royal tombs in the, Valley of the Kings are adorned with innumerable sculp- lures. bas-reliefs, paintings and tab lets illustrative of the periods in which the Pharaohs reigned These inscriptions and paintings are. more over. of much higher merit than the few which have been found in Tutankhamen death chamber. They nave been of invaluable service to the American and British archaeol- ogists in piecing together, with the aid of papyrus documents found in the tombs, the fragmentary history of the old and new empire.
 Perhaps next in value to the num- my and sarcophagus of Tutankilamen himself are some 35 sycamore chests found in the funeral repository. The archaeologists are hopeful that some of these may contain documents of papyrus which will reveal some new facts regarding the little known events of the departed sovereign's short reign. If found, they will be given to Prof James Brestead, the great Egyptian scholar of the Uni versity of Chicago, for decipherment and interpretation.
 Painting of King.
 Opposite the aperture to Tutankha- mems burial vault is d large painting of the King drawn in the style of the reign of Animation. the heretic sov ereign. with his sloping head and wearing d helmet and a leopard skin. This has formed the subject of much study and speculation by Howard Carter and his American associates. There is no indication that Tutankha men adhered to'Akhnaton's new faith the worship of Aten the god of the solar dsc-nor anything to contro- vert the known fact that he led Egypt bac kto the old faith--the worship of Amen, the great god of Thebes. Tutankhamen is represented in the painting as worshiping Osiris, god of life and resurrection, in the tra- ditional manner.
 The news from LOnQOn tHdI the III fluence of the British government may be exerted to prevent the re- moval of Tutankhamen's body from it's burial place to a museum was re- ceived here with satisfaction and re- lief by Egyptians and others who are averse to what they term body snatching" by foreign invaders. They declare there Is as little Justification for disturbing the ashes of the ancient Pharaoh as there would be in removing the dead from one of the royal tombs in Westminster Abbey.
 In this connection it Is pointed out that King Amenophis, who is in tered short distance from Tutank- hamen, specifically requested, by a written tablet In his sepulchral cham Der, that his ashes be not disturbed The plea, however, was not observed until the British authorities in Egypt intervened and succeeded in having the Kings body returned from the Cairo museum to it's original rest ing place in the royal metropolis. It is now the only royal mummy visible to tourists. It rests in the heart of the living rock of the Libyan noun tains, through which a great tunnel was pierced by the ancients.