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...they watched their flocks by night, certain Egyptian shepherds beheld, last week, a flaming portent. They saw the famed Luxor-Cairo de Luxe Express dash screeching through the night with two of its sleeping cars afire. For once the poor shepherds, shivering in their rags, were momentarily more fortunate than such de luxe travelers as George Eastman (kodaks). He, clad in silken green pajamas, slumbered in one of the flaming cars...
Through the light-splotched, angular passages of TutankhAmen's 3,300-year-old tomb at Luxor, Egypt, went Howard Carter and his troupe of delvers to make their ultimate uncovering in the burial chamber of the king, so gorgeously gilded after his youthful death. A great box of translucent alabaster had not been opened...
Howard Carter has finished clearing the fourth chamber of King TutankhAmen's tomb near Luxor, Egypt. The results were disappointing. He announced last week that no papyri, mural writing, engravings or paintings were found. A hole had been smashed in the doorway of the fourth chamber and its contents were in confusion, hinting that some ancient thieves had been at work. Be that as it may, Mr. Carter discovered much that would quicken the pulse of any archaeologist: a bed, probably belonging to King Tut's Queen, supported by strange elongated lions bristling with beaten gold; several large...
Proud Egyptian nationalists had maintained a muttering opposition. Sensitive Egyptian government archeologists had been afraid it would cast a slur on their efficiency, as they had felt when Carter and Carnarvon entered Luxor. Egyptian liberals, Egyptian scholars and King Fuad were of course quite overcome with astonished gratitude and eagerness, but they could not offend the mutterers, and an amazing bit of munificence hung fire because of a hitch at the receiving...
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