Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the authorities as the University have received, in the official reports which are few and far between, the only authentic information which has come to the United States. Since last year it has been generally known that a tomb of some significance was found by Dr. Reisner but nothing has been said with regard to the circumstances of the find and the probable value of the tomb...
...Reisner's assistants who had the honor of actually finding the tomb. Allan Rowe '09 and T. R. Greenlees were working according to a plan of action drawn up by Dr. Reisner before leaving, on the plateau of solid rock between the pyramid of Cheops and the Nile. They had come almost to the edge of the rock where it was cut away in prehistoric ages by the Nile and has since been covered every year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered...
...have been little attempt at concealment because with the mud and small pieces of rock conglomerate brushed off the plaster was instantly recognizable. The rectangular shape seemed definitely to show that a stairway was cut into the rock and had been filled up to the surface with plaster The tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings had just such an entrance but it was filled only with debris. At Thebes, however, there was not so great a necessity of making the surface absolutely smooth because the wide area of the Valley made a clearing of the entire rock...
Nevertheless they quarried out the plaster, came to the first step, then to other and removed blocks of masonry. Finally they came to the bottom and found that their surmises were correct. There was no tomb entrance at the foot of the stairway. Perhaps, after some great ruler had had the cut made, he decided to be buried elsewhere. Perhaps the ancient king had died prematurely, had been disposed of hastily and the stairs filled...
...many more lay underneath. The blocks below the surface were all of pure limestone brought from the royal quarry on the other side of the Nile. Some bore the catouche of Cheops himself, the builder of the Great Pyramid. This may mean that Cheops filled the entrance of the tomb of a prdecessor or it might conceivably mean that Cheops himself was buried in the tomb...