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Howard Carter, of the Metropoolitan Museum, co-discoverer with the late Lord Carnarvon of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, had been growing increasingly restive under the restrictions put upon him by the Egyptian Government through the Antiquities Service of its Public Works Department. Finally he "struck," sealed up the tomb, refused to continue the excavations...
...root of the trouble was the same as in so many other historic complications. The last straw was the refusal of the Minister of Public Works, under whose jurisdiction the excavations fall, to admit to the tomb a number of ladies, wives of Mr. Carter's collaborators, who had been invited to attend the formal opening of the sarcophagus. But this was only the culmination of a long series of "harassing interferences and insults," according to Mr. Carter...
...Rights of publication. The question of visitors is bound up with the latter. The great bulk of the visitors have been curious correspondents and press agents, to whom Carter reserved the right to refuse admittance. By the terms of the concession granted to Lord Carnarvon in 1915, before the tomb was discovered, all rights of publication were to be his. Upon the Earl's death, the agreement was continued with his estate and widow, Countess Almina. Exclusive rights were sold to the London Times and the Associated Press. The Cairo authorities have been fighting this provision ever since...
...declaring itself not at all sure that archaeological treasures might not be concealed in it. After this the expedition and the government proceeded to exchange discourtesies; the government by slighting European ladies, and Mr. Carter by affronting officials with the result, presumably, that none of the objects from the tomb will over be taken farther than Cairo...
...will one day come again in judgment, and she certainly calls upon us to believe and expects us to believe and teach, the fact that He who, for our sakes, came down from Heaven, was born of the Virgin Mary, the fact of His bodily resurrection from the tomb, and the fact of His return to the place which He had, before the worlds were, at the right hand of the Father...