GREAT DISCOVERY IN EGYPT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 59, 10 March 1903, Page 5

GREAT DISCOVERY IN EGYPT.

A PHXKAOH FOUND. j CAIRO, ..arch 0. Tlie. Tomb of Thoth.mes. one of the] Pharaoh, of the eighteenth dynasty, baa been discovered at Thebes, containing his body, and a chariot in perfect condition, and'nlso boomerangs and other interesting object.. j The .aypt Exploration Fund besran its j trorli in l«ft_. and its operations have ben I Oil v. liber:,, .role, that has led to tile most j remarkable Oiscoverles. Professor bay •■_>•■ j Dr. Sp_liem.r_. Professor Flinders i etr_ \, and latterl. Messrs G-oiif.ll and Hunt, are, ; a handful of the brilliant crowd ol wot-U-. era on this mo.t profitable field of researcii. i It Is Impossible to tell from tbe above cable i whether the discovery is Hint or tlie mummy of Tliotlnnes T. or 11. '"'»f- »m ■ was a ;r(-at warrior, who carri. fl his arms i Into the heart of N'tiliia. _ m fur as tbe Rtiph-; rates, ami ere. ted splendid bnildin._s at ' Tin-be.: the latter, who rf-_n.il under the! guardianship y his sister and wife (the conjunction n_i nnconmionl was _t _'.ited, by the Sims a or Ar.'is. 'Hie third Thoib-. lues eoiapletelv eclipsed til" R'lor.v t>f his rr^lofessoi-s. Tie subjected the wh-b-oM Syria and part of Mesopotamia *<> bis. arms, left rem-lies i hron-.-hout I-.;:ypt. arid: received vast :_un_ in tribute from tire Kill-1 !o|..an_ of the South, nnd from Assyria. babylonia. Phoenicia and ("Vtirral Asia. As th« third i. the -rrcaiesi of the horse of; Thothme? it :s very pr<.t>s.>l. that he is the [ .laraoti referred to. while the finding: «f 'ii'l minrmiv at Tli<--h_. sn.rests Thoth-; lies I. AH belong: io th» F.i .btoenil. DynItstv I