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...reconstruction of the tale of this magnificent interment was slowly accomplished last week by Howard Carter and colleagues in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Luxor. After three years of laborious archeology, the diggers opened the royal coffin for the first time. Greatest secrecy attended the event, the pride-swollen, dog-in-the-manger Egyptian officials having exacted a stipulation that no news was to be telegraphed to the archeologically-minded world except the "official communiques" issued to the Egyptian press, which is glumly uninterested in the proceedings...
Egypt. At Luxor, "stalemate" (TIME, March 10) is still the most accurate description of the case of Carnarvon & Carter vs. Egypt. The Government appealed in the Alexandria Mixed Court of Appeals from the decision of Judge Crabites, of Cairo, who found in favor of Carter. The Alexandria court upheld the Government. The American minister, Dr. Morton Howell, who, with Dr. James H. Breasted, had been seeking to persuade the Egyptians to return to its compromise agreement, was ignored by the government. Dr. Breasted has now withdrawn from the case entirely. Sir John Maxwell, acting for Countess Carnarvon, left Egypt...
...Major John Jacob Astor, proprietor of The Times, returned from Luxor in a hurry. He took his seat in the House and voted, but quite forgot that he had not taken the oath. The penalty for failing to take the oath before voting is loss of a member's seat and a ?500 fine. The matter was treated as a great joke. "We all regret," said W. M. R. Pringle (Liberal), "this misadventure to Major Astor. What is the Government's attitude in regard to the pecuniary penalty?" "They are going to take his money," said the Laborite...
...none of the British or American scholars. The occasion was made a political spectacle, the Zaghlulist party (supporters of the Premier) cheering this show of Egyptian defiance to the English-speaking world. Ancient ceremonies of the Pharaohs were revived when two sacred bulls were killed in the centre of Luxor. Thousands of natives and sheiks thronged the streets. The arrangements and lighting in the tomb were very efficiently carried out by the Antiquities Service...
Howard Carter, of the Metropoolitan Museum, co-discoverer with the late Lord Carnarvon of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, had been growing increasingly restive under the restrictions put upon him by the Egyptian Government through the Antiquities Service of its Public Works Department. Finally he "struck," sealed up the tomb, refused to continue the excavations...