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...Lord 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...
...which 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...
...that Coue and King Tut-ankh Amen have begun to pall on the readers of our popular dailies, the journalists are feeling the need of a new sensation to fill their papers with copy and their dinner pails with sandwiches. Fortunately, for them, the obliging American athletes contributed materially to Oxford's victories on Saturday, both in track and crew; and the Sunday sporting pages rang with the "glad news" of American supremacy, while editorials sounded serious warnings of "this dangerous American Imperialism". The cause of all this turmoil was the presence of two Americans in the Oxford shell...
...fire-drill." It is possible that the genius of this ancient savage has been grossly under-rated. Heretofore scientists alone have examined the records of the rocks and runes. Why not turn loose upon these records devotees of electrical lore or send into the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen those with a hobby for automobiles? Then, thanks to the hobby-horse, perhaps the world will learn that the Neolithic man had telephone connections with the adjacent caves or that Pharaoh toured his land in a horseless carriage...