Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-22
TOMB Of PHARAOH
YIELDS PRICELESS
AND VARIED RICHES

LONDON, Eng. - Stripped to
the waist, sweating in the sitting
air of an underground chamber
under the golden sands of Egypt
and broiling African sun, a half
dozen archaeologists are living over
every story ever written of pirate
gold.
Since Howard Carter, a British ex
pert working under the patronage of
Lord Carnarvon, unearthed, a few
weeks ago, the traces of a flight of
stone steps leading down into the
ground in the Valley of the Kings,
amid the ruins of the ancient city OF
Thebes, treasures valued at millions
of dollars have been brought, for
the first time in three thousand
years, out into daylight.
The stone steps led to the tomb
of the Pharaoh, king of Egypt, Tun-
takhamen, a treasure-house of all
that was best in the marvellous arts
of tine ancient Egyptians; and al
ready with the store of royal thrones
and robes; vases, chariots, Jewelry
and other relics hardly touched.
the worlds knowledge of the civil
ization of the early Egyptians has
been doubled.
The money value of the visible OBJ
jects has been estimated at $15,000,
600. But every fresh probing of
the huge ante-chamber to Tuntalk-
amens tomb-the tomb itself has
not even been entered-the estimate
goes up.
Their is every element of the treas
ure hunt: even to the traces of the
pirates distinct printsof naked
feet, left by thieves who entered
the tomb centuries before the birth
of Christ, and carried off some Of the
movable gold and silver vases and
other ornaments.
Carter and his assistants, when.
after years of search for the tomb
the only one not known to have been
despoiled or discovered already -
they found it, declared they were
daZed at the richness of the ante
chamber to the tomb in which they
found themselves.
Vases of gold and silver, wonder
fully inlaid; jeweled chariots; the
kings wardrobe, in which were hun
dreds of garments richer than any
known today, some of which crum-
bled into dust at touch; papyrl-
thousands of treasures whose like
the modern world has never seen.
And around the walls the seals
of the ancient Egyptian govern
ments, affixed after the thieves had
entered and robbed the tomb.
One days find included four ala
baster vases, each cut from a perfect
piece a foot square, and contain
ing perfumes used to anoint Tun,
takhamen's body. The perfume re-
tanned it's odor. The vases them
selves, declared the be unique,
cleaned through the dust that COW
cred them, and upon being cleaned
proved to be transparent. They
have wonderful openwork handles,
and are declared to be priceness.
Near them was one Of the royal
slaves of office. 1t was thought,
from it's rainbow-like radiance, that
it was inlaid with precious stones.
1t was found that the staff was OF
different sorts of bark, inlaid with
the forewings-the hind ones were
rejected as too coarse-of thousands
of different colored beetles, as
bright as they were when some
dusky craftsman of ancient Thebes
spent months in inlaying them for
his royal master. F.,
No museum in the world has ever
received such treasures. They are
declared to have brought to light a
new, civilization, whose arts the
modern world cannot az preach. 1t
will be months before they are all
removed and catal 1gued.