Word: sheshonk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...