Word: tutankhamen
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...time of Tutankhamen's exhumation in Egypt, striking versions of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, together with emissaries from the Powers-not omitting the heavenly, for an angel descended blithely by pulley and wire from a third-story window, entered the Cambridge market square and there, from the subterranean public mictuary, resurrected a cigar store Indian, one Phineas...
...Fine Arts Expedition there will be brought to light no treasures of gold and skillfully worked jewelry. There will be discovered no intact furniture and no completely preserved mummy of a great pharaoh. The Egyptain government, warned by the world fame and furor caused by the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, has taken every precaution to prevent the story from coming to the public through the press. Egyptain newspapers have been forced to keep absolute silence and very little has come to the press in Europe and America...
...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 foundation impossible...
...Tutankhamen's furniture was found in the same condition in which it was put in the tomb. If it bad been left undiscovered until some discoverer 2000 years hence chanced upon it, decay would probably have destroyed much of it. Six-milenniums have passed since the funerary equipment was sealed up at Gizeh and even the ideal conditions of a uniform temperature and dry air were insufficient to preserve the furniture...
...Egyptian Majesty, King TutankhAmen, death came about 3,300 years ago, after 17 years of life, eight of matrimony, three or four of sovereignty. In those days the throne of the Pharaohs was inherited by sons-in-law. Thus Saa-nekht, having married one daughter of Pharaoh Khu-n-Aten, succeeded his father-in-law, died, was succeeded by his brother-in-law, Tutankh-Amen, who had meanwhile married Khu-n-Aten's third daughter, Amkh-nes-pa-Aten...