ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND
EGYPT’S FIRST SILVER TOMB. (United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, March 20. The Cairo, correspondent of “The Times” says that Professor Montet, of Strasbourg University, discovered near Tanis (referred to in the Bible as Zoan) in the Delta Province the first gold coffin since that of Tutankhamen. It also contained the first silver coffin ever found in Egypt, in which was a, mummy believed to he that of King Psousennes, reputedly one of King Solomon’s fathers-in-law. Two bejewelled skeletons lay beside the sarcophagus and a large vase, shill unopened. . Tanis was the capital of the Pliaroahs from 1700 to 1200 B.C. Professor Montot explored the empty' burial chambers of the kings of tho Twenty-first and Twenty-second Dynasties, which governed Delta from 1100 to 950 B.C. x
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 135, 21 March 1939, Page 4
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