Evening star., 1926-01-12

Der found la st
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March by the Har
yard expedition. In a
: great sarcopha- IN
gus of alabaster, iN"
the most perfect ~
and beautiful in W
existence, under a Ill
canopy of solid
sheet gold. sur y
rounded by his 49,
ire a sures. his
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'e Y erl a ting H
house" still unvio- IN
late. his monu- w
ment the Great ~
Pyramid, one of ~
the most powerful ILL
m ar C h the
world has known
is believed to re- ~T~-C
pose. NHh>|FS
The probable oc- Che OBS is the
! cupant of this the ns nneiiinS ny 10 10
tomb is king builder of the Great
W h oSe fame fyramid. HIS Egyp-
among among ms people The disk is NH: then
has julius Cae- the iea snake snake F. the
sar's or AleXan-
der's among us, and to perpetu.
ate whose worship as a god
priests were still appointed nearly
5000 years after his apotheosis Even
if the tomb is not the Pharaoh Sene-
fru's, as l believe it is, when DR..
George A. Reisner lifts the alaba ster
lid he will intrude on an untroubled
royal slumber that has lasted, accord
ing to Prof. Flinders Petrie, for about
5,s94 years. No burial treasure, no
unentered tomb. left as the priests
left it, has ever been found that dates
within 1900 years of this.
Secret Soon to Be Known.
DIR. Reisner, head Of the Harvard
Boston expedition and most eminent
among active living field archeolo-
gists, would bite his tongue off before
he would claim this tomb as Sene.
frus. The door has not been entered;
! how can he tell? But even DIR. Reis-
ner, most cautious and pessimistic as
he Is the most thorough and conSci-
entious Of eXcavators. would not at
tempt. now that he is on the spot. to
| deny that the tomb is royal. 1t can
not be anything else. We are on the
! eve Of the solution Of the mystery by
| DIR. Reisner himself. Before the Win
ter is over, possibly soon after this
! story appears, what Cairo calls the
mystery tomb" and the excavators
! iaconically call "70O0x" will yield up
| its secret.
! Before the door has been broken
down and Dr.. Reisner's feet have
crossed a threshold untrodden since
! that day five or six thousand years
: ago when the legendary Cheops and
! his priests left the chamber, and the
masons sealed it up with the royal
seals for all eternity, a clear account
of the discovery and of the proba
| bilities and possibilities involved
, ought to be published. Suspense is
sometimes agoniZing and sometimes
great fun. 1t all depends. The sus
pense that precedes, during these
weeks. the final quarrying to the
bottom of the deepest tomb shaft ever
known. and DR.. Reisner's entrance
| is one which the eXcavatorS would be
selfish not to wish to share with the
public. They are not themselves re
! spon3ible for the absolute silence
| about "70O0x" imposed upon them by
the Egyptian government, which has
decreed that no facts whatever about
this tomb shall be permitted to reach
the world excepting in the form OF
| official government communiques.
! News Leaked Out.
| First must come the account of the
discovery itself. Garbled versions
| official and unofficial, were published
last March. They aroused for a day
general interest. which died away
when statements were made that ap
parently disproved any possibility
, that another find to rival that OF
| Tut-ankh-Amen had been made DIR
Reisner himself, in Boston at the time
and dependent upon accounts sent
| from Cairo, promptly expressed his
certainty that the tomb could not be
rb ho {r
the rock whose Itinerary temple had
been destroyed by Cheops when the
great pyramid was built contain a
king? Above all, how could it con
tain Senefru, who built himself two
huge pyramids, one 25 miles. the
other more than so. away from the
scene of this discovery?
True, the news leaked out, and the
Egyptians published, in an official
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