TOMBS OF THE ANCIENTS
A NOT It EJt WONDERFUL DIS- - COYERY OLDER AND RICHER TUAN TUTANKHAMEN'S (By Electric Cable—Copyright.) Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association. London, Aug. 20. ' An American banker who has returned from Cairo declares that throe tombs have been discovered in the Valley of the Kings 1000 years older than Tutankhamen Lord Carnarvon’s party discovered the.first clue of their existence from inscriptions found in 1023 excavations. They arc believed to contain untold wealth, because they belong to tlio period when gold anu ivory were used in the royal palaces' for furniture instead of polished, wood. They are.situated within five miles of Tutankhamen’s' tomb.
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Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 317, 22 August 1924, Page 7
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105TOMBS OF THE ANCIENTS Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 317, 22 August 1924, Page 7
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