TREASURES FROM AN OLD TOMB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 22

TREASURES FROM AN OLD TOMB.

While excavating for Greek remains somo years ago at Asine, a Swedish archaeologist found a very old story repeated. In the Arabian Nights, when the words Open Sesame were repeated, a stono rolled back to disclose the brigand's cave. In real life Professor A. VV. Perrson rolled back a stone and found the Royal tomb of a Mycenean king. The treasure in the tomb comprised golden cups, chains, precious seals, swords and daggers inlaid with gold, such as can be seen in the Athens Museum, but very seldom anywhere else. The way the stone came to be rolled back is itself a story of strange accidents. Forty Centuries Ago. An innkeeper, a friend of the many archaeologists labouring in the land of the Argives, was out riding when lie came on a party of peasants who were; having difficulty with a big block of sandstone they wanted to remove in order to sink a well. He knew enough about such matters to believe that the stone might be of importance, and hastened to tell one of tho archaeologists. The opportunity of removing it was then offered to the Swedish archaeologists. They took it, rolled back the stone, and revealed one of the richest tombs found in Greece in the twentieth century, dating back more than 40 centuries ago.