TREASURES OF OLD EGYPT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 308, 29 December 1922, Page 5

TREASURES OF OLD EGYPT.

TOMB YIELDS ITS SECRETS. ROBES AND JEWELLERY. LONDON, December 28. A correspondent of the "Morning Post" at JLuxor reports that Mr. Howard Carter on Wednesday commenced removing objects from the tomb of Tut-ankh-Amcn. the discovery of which is arousing ever-increasing interest. Evperis from Britain and America are assisting Lord Carnarvon's expedition in the long and difficult work of saving the contents of the tomb.

The first object brought out was an exquisitely-decorated box with inlay work, showing the king hunting lion-s, 12 by 18 inches. It retails the highest type fo Japanese inlay work. Experts bore the box on a stretcher through the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings to the tomb of Seti IT., where the contents of Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb arc being examined and cleaned. Other objects thus far brought out are the queen's robes and jewellery, including- a necklace of rarest black amber. An object of priceless value is a large alabaster vase of exceptional perfection, containing balm for embalming bodies. Mr. Carter describes thin as an early type of the vase that Mary Magdalene used when she washed the feet of Jesus.

It "ill take many week* to recover the objects in the first chamber. The contents of the other chambers in the tomb are still unknown. Evidence thus far suggest? that Tut-ankli-Amen reigned for some time as 00-regent with Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV.): that he left Thebes for a period, and that on the death of Akhenaten he returned and re-embraced the orthodox religion, the worship of Amen, which he had forsaken for the worship of Aten. or the Sun.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)