Putnam patriot., 1923-12-14
PHARAOH'S TOMB IS
 FULLY DESCRIBED
Woodstock Man Heads Metro politan Museums Expedi-
 ton at Grave
Mir. Ly,hgoe's Work Retold In Ma-
 scum Directors Report

There IS large interest for many Windham County people in the report made public on Wednesday in the New York Times by Director Edward Eob- insou of the work done al the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen in the Valley of the King hy the Egyptian staT of the Met ropolitan Museum of Art. for the head of the Egyptian department of the Metropolitan Museum Is Albert NJ. Lvthgoe of Woodstock. whose wife is a daughter of Mrs. R B. Richardson of Woodstock Mir and Mrs. Lythgoe. who spent the summer in Woodstock. left for Egypt early in the fall, and are at present in resident st the Rest House at Luxor Mir. Lythgoe has been intimately associated with How ard Carter in his work at the famous tomb. and Mrs. Lythgoe was one Of the first women Co enter the funeral chamber Mir and Mrs. Lythgoe were hosts to Queen Elizabeth of the Bel gians when she made her visit Co the tomb last spring.
 Museums New Treasures
 The article from The Times is as follows:
 An authentic account of the work done at the tomb Of Tut-ankh-Amen ia the Valley of the Kings by members of the Egyptian staff of the Metro politan Museum of Art was made pub lie yesterday by Edward Robinson. Director Of the Museum. Important discoveries in the Metropolitan's con- cession in the Theban Metropolis, in- eluding a series of granite statues Of the bearded Queen Hatchepsut of the XVIII dynasty. who adopted a king g garb to justify her attempt to rule iu her own right against the custom of her ancient people. are described in the announcement from the Museum.
 Other antiquities included the num- mics of two tattoed dancing girls. and another of q dancing girl in faience showing the same tattoo designs that decorated the ancient human skins: 1000 searabs; sketches on flakes of limestone from the temple of Deir FL Bahri. XVIII dynasty; an unfinished platter made of the bas-reliefs in the tomb of khety of the XI dynasty when eommercialism invaded the sa- cred confines of the tomb because of the excellence of the seulptured stone for making Egyptian dinner plates; a whip handle of "The Sailor of Sen nut, Nebiri.n who probably used the lash upon the backs of his sailors as they toiled up the hill from the river to Queen Hatchepsut's temple. drag ging the enormous blocks of granite brought from Assuan by boat; scene bottle from the tomb of Mayor Yuy, who is dated somewhere between the XII and the XIII dynasties; a granite altar from the tomb of Khety. master spinner. who supplied the linen for the Kings harem in the X dynasty and sculptured records of the Egyptians of 1000 years ago.
 Experts Now Aiding Garter
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art announces that the members of its Egyptian Expedition have now all re turned to the scenes of their exeava= tions, and that those members who were designated for the late Lord Car narvon's expedition at the Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen have resumed their work with Howard Carter.
 Evidence was not lacking to con meet the name of Tut-ankh- Amen with that part of the Valley of the Kings. where the tomb was found, according to Arthur C. Mace of the Metropolitan