GRAVE OF PRINCESS.
THE RICH LADY AND HER GEMS.
Old Nile had loving care for the princess who was daughter 01 Ivhufu (01 C'licops) the pyramid builder. When she died she was buried near the second pyramid of Gi/.eh, which lici father built in his long reign of 50 years. Her tomb has just been found, and in it the bodv of the princess slept just as it had been laid to rest 3000 years before Christ was born.
A Nile flood some time in the many centuries between her days and ours had reached the tomb and filled it with mud. The mud had preserved the body of the princess in the many wrappings with which her father had enclosed it.
His monument i« a tall pyramid, 470 ft high, which looks on the uncliang--111"; river, and lii.s own body lias long ago disappeared, though seven marvellous statues of them, found in the Temple of the Sphinx, arc in the Cairo Museum, and a cast of one of them in the British Museum. But the body of the princess survives with the gold" head-dress she wore, the gold bracelets which clasped her arms, and the gold and gems of her necklaces.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 172, 22 July 1936, Page 18
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