DID HE HAVE T. B.?

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 13 November 1925, Page 7

DID HE HAVE T. B.?

OR WAS HE MURDERED? A MUCH-DELAYED INQUEST. X-RAYS FOR TUT-ANKH-AMEN. (By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.', (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 12. The Luxor correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says that,amidst the greatest secrecy, Mr. Carter lifted the mummy of Tut-ankh-amen from the innermost gold-covered case, and propped it up against the wall while Dr. Deny (Professor of Anatomy at Cairo) submitted it to an X-ray examination. It is hoped that medical examinations will reveal whether King Tut-ankh-amen died of tuberculosis or violence, as others say. If there are no indications, Dr. Lucas, of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, will analyse the internal organs in canopic for traces of poison. Mr. Carter believes that Horemheb, a general of Aknaton, the heretic king, murdered Tut-ankh-amen and usurped the Crown, and hence hurried the burial of Tiit-ankh-amen. Mr. Carter found a magnificent coloured papyrus roll 100 ft long, containing the first Royal book of the dead. The papyrus is embellished with hundreds of paintings in colour by Egypt's greatest artists. The book may well prove the tomb's finest legacy, and reveal the wonders of the school of painting founded by Aknaton at Tel' el Amarna in Egypt's supreme period of decorative art. The inmost coffin, -which is the most splendid of all, has been cleaned of black resinous matter, due to funeral libations. The gold figures of gods and other ornamentations are declared superior to any similar work in Egypt. The excavators continue their task, and Mr. Carter still hopes to find the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.— ("Argus.")