Word: tomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...necklaces, 21 bracelets inscribed with family records, six beautifully carved scarabs strung on a gold wire, gold finger and toe cases, like those on the mummy of Tutankhamen. Egyptologists declared that it was as remarkable an archeological haul as Howard Carter & Co. had found in King Tut's tomb...
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...