Word: montet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Betray Me." In 1929 an accomplished grave robber came to Egypt. Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg University, well financed by a French subsidy, dug for more than ten years in the salty soil near the ruins of Tanis. At last he found the tomb. In 1940 Pharaoh Psousennes, with all his treasure, was exposed to modern stares...
...secret chamber General Unjebanenjebet slept on. A new war raged in Africa. Professor Montet, his funds cut off by the German invaders, returned to defeated France. When peace came, he hurried back. Sand had drifted again over the tomb, but gangs of chanting laborers soon cleared a suspiciously thick wall. Probing between its limestone blocks, Professor Montet felt an empty space. His workmen lifted the blocks; through the ancient dead air, they saw the gleam of gold...
...dark eyes glistening with excitement, Egypt's young King Farouk sped last week to the Nile Delta. There, on the site of ancient Tanis, Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg had discovered the tomb of Psousennes I, second King of the 21st Dynasty (TIME, March 4). Last week, with Farouk watching, the professor opened Psousennes' silver mummy case...
Last year at Tanis, Professor Montet discovered a tomb which was first ascribed to Psousennes, but later turned out to be that of Sheshonk I, a 22nd Dynasty king who is set down in the Bible, under the name of Shishak, as the pillager of Solomon's treasures (TIME, April 3; April...
...wall of Sheshonk's tomb was a huge block of pink granite. Professor Montet, who has directed digs at Tanis since 1929 and discovered (at Byblos) the oldest known alphabetical inscription, is no mean archeologist. He suspected that behind that block was a passageway leading to the tomb of Psousennes. He was right...