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...esoteric calculations known only to Egyptologists, Dr. Ghoneim tried to figure where the long-forgotten entrance might be. His laborers poked into the sand and at last found a rubble-choked tunnel slanting down into the hill. Bit by bit the debris was cleared away. The tunnel extended into the living rock and apparently reached a dead end 121 ft. from the entrance. Dr. Ghoneim, wise in such matters, was not discouraged, and eventually he uncovered the entrance of a second tunnel. Unlike the first, it was not barren. Ranged along it were the doorways of 120 separate chambers, some...
Sliding Panel. At last Dr. Ghoneim found a granite slab, blocking the corridor and apparently untouched through the ages. Pushing into the chamber behind it, he came on what all Egyptologists dream of finding: an undamaged and apparently unopened sarcophagus. It is 8 ft. long, made of alabaster richly worked with gold and closed at one end by a sliding alabaster panel, through which the mummy must have been inserted. Around it were the portals of many other chambers or passages cut long ago in the rock. They may lead to the tombs of members of a Pharaoh...
...spite of the three-day Moslem Feast of Bairam, Dr. Ghoneim put 80 laborers to work making the underground passageways navigable for visitors. He declared that the sarcophagus is certainly royal, and that it probably contains the golden mummy case of the Pharaoh Sanakht. If this proves to be so, it will be important indeed. Only a few unrobbed tombs of Pharaohs have been found, and the earliest of them, that of Tutankhamen, is 1,500 years later than the Third Dynasty...
...Egyptologists are not so sure that Ghoneim will find the mummy of Sanakht or of any Pharaoh. If the sarcophagus does prove to be royal, said Dr. William C. Hayes of New York's Metropolitan Museum, it is likely to contain a Pharaoh earlier than Zoser. builder of the step pyramid. Sanakht was probably a son of Zoser, and no prideful Pharaoh was likely to place his tomb, as the new found one was placed, behind that of his father...
Bitter Feud. While VIPs were admiring the new find, a bitter feud broke out between Dr. Ghoneim and Kamal el Mallakh, discoverer of Cheops' soul ship. Cried El Mallakh, who is officially an architect: "The archeologists have opened a second front against...