New Britain herald., 1930-03-21
Scarabs and Toilet Articles Unearthed From Tomb -One Gallery Crowded With Collins, Inscribed With Qualities of Occu- pants.

Cairo, Egypt, March q R-Ex- cavators under the direction of the University of Pennsylvania are mak- ing discoveries of considerable his toric value, including 101 mummies, amid the tombs of ancient Egyp- tians at Meydum.
 Several unsuspected chambers with untouched collins and contents have been unearthed by the party, which has been digging since No- vember, and although the discover ies are not so rich in artistic and historic interest as those at Luxor and more recently at the Spinx, they make g. valuable contribution to knowledge of Egyptian history over & wide period.
 Foreigners Tomb Explored
 The first tomb of note to be un- carthed was that of a foreigner who, sone of the pottery indicated, had come from Cyprus and settled at Meydum in the reign of Thothmes the third, about 15O0 B. c. His name was K. A. Gamesh. His coffin was beautifully decorated and inscribed with a record of his qualities.
 In another large coffin, also of rich interior, several mummies were found, as we'll as 25 scarabs, numer- GUS amulets and a set of very deli cate toilet articles.
 To the east of the Mastaba was discovered a cemetery of contem- porary date. A number of bodies were exposed, all having been bur jed in the same manner, namely with their heads to the north and turned to the east. This position was customary under the XVII dynasty at Meydum and elsewhere, but the most prolific yield was obtained from su spot which was sunk some dis tance to the southeast of the pyra- mid.
 Here the explorers came upon F rock cut chambers, most of which were stacked up to the ceiling with layers of collins in rows. In addi- ton to 2s single burials, without collins, this complex" contained 1o1 mummies in coffins of which 30 were recovered in a fair state of preservation.
 See Through Wall
 The chambers were discovered in the reverse order of their dating. which ranged from the new empire to the Ptolemaic and Roman era. When the first chamber was reached. the explorers were able to sec through a chink in the wall the rows of collins in a larger and low CT chamber to the north and when this was broken into it was seen 10 be an anteroom with other cham bers leading from it.
 The anteroom was piled high with corpses nd collins thick with cob webs and covered with rubble and Jumps of rock which had faked off from the ceiling. It took several days hard work to reduce their con- fusion to order and sort out skele- tons, mummies and coffins. Photo graphs were taken ot each stage of the work. Only the better preserved collins were kept.
 The chambers on the south side Of the pit were similarly disposed but the three adjoinD.g rooms were found to be sealed. One contained a very black coffin of the 18th dynasty (B. c. 20o0), rectangular in shape and painted in exquisite white hieroglyphs with religious texts from the Heliopolis recession of the book of the dead.
 The coffin had originally belonged to . lady named Sat Her Elm Hat, but was again used during the 18th dynasty, or thereabolNs. Underneath lay the remains of a similar coffin belonging to person named khenti Khet Elm Hat.