THE EGYPTIAN TOMB.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10349, 12 March 1925, Page 5

THE EGYPTIAN TOMB.

SPECULATIONS OF EXPERTS.

SENEFERU’S OR HIGH OFFICIAL’S

(Per Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day 9.5 a.m.) LOND6N, May 11. Experts doubt whether the tomb „ discovered at .Gizeh, Egypt, is really t that of the fourth dynasty Pharaoh, / Seneferu, as they believe he was buried in a pyramid either at Medum or ■- at Dalshur. The latter pyramid, how- „ ever, seems to have been erected as a blind to receive tomb robbers, and possibly the Medum pyramid is also ‘ a j blind. If this is so, the alabaster sarcophagus in the newly-discovered tomb may contain Seneferu’s body, as A thei Harvard Mission claims. The fact that it is embedded in a 90-foot pit of concrete, vastly difficult Of: access, favours the expedition’s viewpoint. If the tomb is not tnat of Seneferu it belongs to a. high official of his.ipourt, dating 1500 years before Tutankhamen, and therefore of a period. of which relatively few specimens of art remain. LONDON, March 10. * The Harvard-Boston expedition, under thq, direction of Professor Reisner, has, during recent winters, been • workino- on the ruins of Meroe, at Kabusheir, in the Sudan, but work on ibis site is believed to be now coml>leted. The expedition has concessions at Gizeh, where it makes its summer lieadquarters, and. where. much work 4 has been done in unearthing Old Kmg- , dom remains, dating from 2800 8.0.