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From the Nile Delta last week Archeologist Pierre Montet sent word he had found the tomb of King Psousennes I. The discovery caused crows of delight from Egyptologists, because up to last week no royal tomb of the 21st Dynasty had been located...
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...
Last month Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg created an archeological sensation when he announced, from San-el-Hagar on the Nile Delta, that he had found the funeral chamber and the mummy of one of the five kings named Sheshonk who ruled ancient Egypt during the 22nd Dynasty (TIME, April 3). It was suspected that this might be Sheshonk I, the conqueror who, according to the Old Testament, "came up against Jerusalem" and went away with all of Solomon's gold shields. Last week the mummy was identified by a "cartouche" (personal inscription) found on a breast ornament...
...Professor Montet's mummy turns out to be the Biblical Shishak, † the find will be of more importance historically than the late Howard Carter's highly publicized discovery of Tutankhamen in 1922-since Tutankhamen was a footling little king who made no great impact on the affairs of his time...