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...cardinal's hat is suspended by golden wires over the high altar in his cathedral. There it remains till it accompanies his body to the tomb...
Peacemaker Breasted. Efforts were made to approach a settlement between the Egyptian Government, on the one hand, and the Countess Carnarvon and Howard Carter, on the other, in the dispute (TiME, Feb. 25 et seq.), over TutankhAmen's tomb. Dr. James Henry Breasted, distinguished American archeologist and historian, who has been in Egypt all Winter, along with many other savants, agreed to act as mediator and started negotiations, but without much optimism. Dr. Breasted, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago, is internationally respected as one of the two or three...
Guests, Bulls, Sheiks. The official reopening of the tomb by the Government took place as scheduled. One hundred and seventy invited guests included High Commissioner and Lady Allenby, the diplomatic corps, Egyptian dignitaries and M. Fougart, head of the French archeologists in Egypt, but none of the British or American scholars. The occasion was made a political spectacle, the Zaghlulist party (supporters of the Premier) cheering this show of Egyptian defiance to the English-speaking world. Ancient ceremonies of the Pharaohs were revived when two sacred bulls were killed in the centre of Luxor. Thousands of natives and sheiks thronged...
...Egyptian Government, after breaking open the sealed tomb of TutankhAmen (TIME, Feb. 25, Mar. 3), making an inventory of the contents of the tomb and laboratory, lowering the lid of the sarcophagus to insure the safety of the gold mummy case and covering various relics for protection, sealed the doors of the two rooms still untouched. Howard Carter was not present, is still relying on his suits in the Cairo courts. The officials sanctioned the opening of the tomb to thousands of eager visitors for ten days from Mar. 1, after which it will again be closed until a decision...
...larger question of possession is very much unsettled. No permanent disposition has been made of any of the treasures so far discovered. The objects now displayed at Cairo are kept in a special collection until decision is reached. The articles of concession stipulated that "tombs which are discovered intact, together with all objects which they may contain, shall be handed over to the Museum (in Cairo) whole and without division." In the case of "tombs which already have been searched," the Egyptian Antiquities Service has the right to reserve objects of capital importance and share the remainder with the committee...