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That the discovery of the tomb of Tutankh-Amen by the late Lord Carnarvon was of enormous importance, not because of the value of the individual relics of the ancient Egyptians, but because of the fact that the tomb is the only untouched one that has ever been discovered, was the keynote of an interview given by Professor G. H. Chase '96, John E. Hudson professor of Archaeology and Curator of Classical Antiquities to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...Carnarvon's in importance was that of the tomb of the father and mother of King Ti by Mr. Theodore Davis," continued Professor Chase. "This tomb had been entered before but a good deal of material had been left by the robbers. Previous to the excavation of Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb, the knowledge of the ancient Egyptian glory was restricted to what could be gleaned from the few records and remains left in the already ransacked tombs. Now Lord Carnarvon has given the world a record as complete as the whole contents of a king's tomb can provide...
...will appear in full in the next Bulletin of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Meroe is in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, not very far from Khartum. It is over six hundred miles south of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, where the discovery of King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb was recently made...
...temporarily overshadowed. No brilliant treasures were found in the pilfered tombs unearthed by the expedition from this University and the Boston Museum, and the accident of publicity did not popularize their work. Yet their discoveries add whole new chapters to Ethiopian history which will be read when Tut-ankh-Amen has dropped to the footnotes...
Hornets are swarming to the mausoleum of Tut-ank-Amen in the Valley of the Kings-evidently attracted by some ingredient used in treating the objects taken from the tomb. Two physicians advanced upon a patient in Clinton, Iowa, to determine his blood pressure. He opened fire with two revolvers, wounded one doctor, shot himself. He then died...