Evening star., 1923-04-01


" knowledge of old Egypt, hidden
~ away for men of later date (for
Il usD, to live one hundred years
could there be a more justifying ex-
ample of the priceless secrets which
King Fuad and all modern Egyptians
believe to await discovery in the tombs
of priests and pharaohs, and, of whose
search by foreigners they are so jeal-
Gus?
Call it an Egyptian rumor. 1t cannot
be vouched for: yet it is so vital and
so circumstantial, how can I ignore 1t?
! Call it rumor among studiouS people
| in Paris and London--just the kind OF
folks who feel they have no right to
suppress a message to the world, al
| ready hidden some 1900 years,
On the other hand, what odium will
not attach to the confession?
The parties fear that they have
spoiled very great discovery. A find
of such surprising import, to retain
authentic value, should have been regu-
larized on the spot. in full daylight.
Note you. also, this tomb would be
more than royal. Yet they messed the
whole thing.
y 4 Xxx
4 LII the same. they got the goat of
"A old and modern Egypt! How
! Why? With what2
Just that. Who could dream that a
mummified Egyptian goat, dead 1000
years, could be the guardian OF such
extraordinary objects? Other embalmed
goats have been found. They contained
nothing. You can see one in the second
DER ct Bahari hall of the Gizeh mu-
scum at Cairo. But "mademoiselle" is
quoted as telling that ''the goat of the
priests" lay on q rich ALTAR" under a
| cloth gold canopy, as if the enig-
matte beast had right to immense dig
nifty!
They would be two tourist parties,
French and English, who came together
last winter in Egypt. The French fam
lily had with them an attractive young
French maid. now elevated to the title
of tmademoiselle," although reported
| married. On this young person the ad-
venture turned. There was not an
Egyptologist in the affair. Love did it.
native specialist-one Of those ex-
perienced mixed-breed Italian Greek
Arab Egyptians who have worked for
years with the official tomb explorers,
| but are sometimes open TO a specula-
! tion-fell in love with the French maid
| Shopping around a rocky ledge in the
| tombs neighborhood. he found. in a spot
| laid bare by unusual sand blows, the
almost invisible lines which mark the
entrance to a virgin tomb.
And, just TO recommend himself tC
| her (and her TO them) and also in re-
turn for large sum of money (they
! are married now and flourishng in
| Pans). this Italian Greek Arab -Egyp-
tian tomb tout told his secret to the
/ French maid. and she told her patrons
| Which was done.
And so they got the priests goat!
| What they found was not a tomb al
all, but something quite unprecedented
! Even now d name cannot be put to il
! with certainty. But all passes as if a
| priestly magi OF old Egypt hid away q
vital long-life secret for the benefit oi
future generations-or. rather, perhaps
| to prove to such remote epochs theiI
own great. proud knowledge!
| There is even frst-class indication
| that they conceived a discovery so re-
mote in the dim future that all knowl-
| edge of their language might be quite
forgotten.
There was not a hieroglyphic In that
| rock room, There was no carved OF
painted panegyrics. no quotations from
| the Book Of the Dead, no pictured rep
resentations OF gods or men! on an
altar, simply, lay the goat.
! No king or archpriest. so the story
runs, could be more richly laid away
after his mummifying. The mummy
case has golden horns, not gilded. Its
! eyes are two big rubies, such as had
never been found in tomb, and 365
semi precious jewels studded into the
/ wood design decorative collar. And
above all, on the wall were "magic
eyes!
X X y
iNTOW, magic eyes were there, un.
IN doubtedIy. for honor only. No.
where else have they been found but
on sealed doors to inner tonbs of kings