MUMMY MOVES

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 June 1922, Page 2

MUMMY MOVES

A group of British Museum officials was gathered round a case containing an' mummy. It was the niumniy of a priestess named Katobet, who lived nearly 3000 year s ago. It had been reported that tho mummy was gradually turning over on to its left side. At first the idea, was treated as an absurdity. The case was examined, and the verdict was that Katebet lay in exactly the same position as that in which she had been since the years eight hundred and something B.C. But this did not satisfy the student of mummies who had reported the supposed movement. She went day by day and watched, took note of her observations, and at last was able to prove to the officials that the mummy had slightly turned. The explanation is that the vibration of the building caused by electrical power plant, or the footsteps of visit )rs, or ) ossibly by the running cf urdergrou.nd tube trains, has caused a vciy gradual movement of the niur. my in its case.