Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-16
QUEEN ANK'S STORY
IS NOW IMMORTAL
Girl Ruler OF Egypt Tries Des-
perateIy to Hold Throne
of Tut.
BY JOHN l.. RAIDFRS TON,
Spf clal Core poudent Ut The star and North
American. Newspaper Alliance.

t0TrCSpnutent
American. Newspaper Alliance.
LUXOR. December f6.-Queen Ank.
whose history was unknown three
Years ago. will henceforth take her
place among the romantic crowned
women of history. beside Cleopatra
and Semiramis. This is one of the
results Of Howard Carriers eXcava.
ti0ns this year In the Valley of the
Kings.
She was the widow of King Tut.
and worthy to rank with the great
queens Of history. If anybody thinks
that statement nonsense let him come
out here and look, and he will lose
his heart to her.
Poor little Tut -ankhAmen They
have at last stripped the boys enact
atod carcass of the gold and jewels
and reEalia with which his girl widow
loaded his body.
Il was probably before she aid that
last garland on his brow that she
wrote post haste to the King of the
H;ttites. send me son Of thine and
Ii" shall marry me and | will make
him King over Egypt,
The story has been told by the
,iay tablets found In the ruins of the
Eiltite capital; how the King hest.
tatcd. replied asking details. the
widow despariugly told him to hurry,
old high priest of the hereto King
-hhFnaton seized the throne and no
body knows what happened 10 Tut's
queen. Ankescnamon.
Those who have seen the Tut-ank.
Amen treas uros do know this. that
the inspired artists who depicted the
little Queen amounting hcr husha nd
- " perfume. or tanning him. or
landing him an arrow as she points
with Eirlish excitement ~ a fat bird
hat flies 10 escape the royal bow,
rave added new legend To tho stories
Of dead queens that the world VIII
nc. lei die
Future genera tions will wonder and
speculate about Ankesenamop, and
perhaps give her a name for short
Iust Ank would do. her real name,
without dra Ccing in the god Anon.
Seeking New Fncts.
During tho past month. before
crowd of minor Egyptian officials.
Howard Carter has been adding new
ard remarkable facts and sreculations
out of which viii grow tho legend of
Queen Ank Before the Tut tomb is
cnDtied two or three years hence we
may know all about her Eut SO far
there have been no manuscripts hut
sacred texts.
This much can he said now. hat
since the experts who unvrappcd Tut
say he was Il or Is when no died his
duecn-the pictures support his-can
hardly have been older. What a scene
this che fact C5njures up--a girl of
perhaps Il risking her life. perhaps
losing if. in an effort 10 hold her
C,owr by importing an alien Pharaoh
from the great Asiatic empire with
whom the mighty kings Of her
dynasty had been al war for a gen
err ton,
Pun perhaps the cynic may fairly
remark Queen Ank knew nothing
bout this little plot, or. if she wrote
tho letters did so al tho bidding Of
group vt runSpiraturS who wished TO
keep old Ay off the. throne. It may
be 50. Interesting evidence has just
hoen found that Ay. the new Pharaoh.
made sure of his crown by hustling in
manner almost indecent the OBJ
Sequies of Tut. The point of what
follows is that the throne of the
Pharaoh was vacant. like the chair of
-. Peter. until the dead King was
buried. Then. under the Thehan en-
pre-, the god ANON at Karnak his
image brought forth ny the priests.
hailed the new King as the Pharao oh,
the son Of The sun.
Rushing the Burial.
For some reason Ay was i'm a great
hurry Ia see the last OF his prede-'
CcssOr. Ever since Tut'S tomb was
discovered. The eXcavaturS have
found abundant proof that Tut did
not receive the customary careful and
elaborate burial. In the inner sane
tuary objects We're brought and
dumped down anywhere. anyhow.
The great golden shrineS. doubtless
always prepared at leisure while the
Pharaoh lived. were put together
hurriedly and not according to the
directions marked on them. The
original lid of the great quartzite
sarcophaguS. with its guardian angels
folding their wings along its sides,
was either broken or did not arrive in
time, so a granite lid with crack in
II. that had caused it to he rejected
for some other sarcophagus, was sub
stituted. These things have been
known for two wears.
But not until the golden inner CONN
was opened this week was Avs haste
t. re; rid of his predecessor and get
himself proclaimed King clearly