“TUT’S” TOMB

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 November 1925, Page 5

“TUT’S” TOMB

MORE WONDERS REVEALED. HOW DID THE KING DIE? WONDERFUL PAPYRUS ROLL. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT Received Nov. 13, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 12. 1 The Daily Chronicle’s Luxor correspondent says: “Amidst the greatest secrecy Mr. Carter lifted the mummy of King Tutankhamen from the innermost gold-covered case and propped it up against a wall, while Mr. Professor of Anatomy, of Cairo, submitted it to an X-ray examination. It is hoped that medical examinations will reveal whether Tutankhamen died of tuberculosis or violence, as others say. If there are no indications Dbctor Lucas, of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, will analyse the internal organs in canopio jars for traces of poison. Mr. Carter believes that Horemheb,* a general of Aknaton, the heretic king, murdered Tutankhamen and unsurped the crown, hence the hurried burial of Tutankhamen. >. Mr. Carter found a magnificent coloured papyrus roll, one hundred feet long containing the first royal book of the dead. The papyrus was embellished with hundreds of paintings in colours 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 Tell El Amarna, in Egypt’s supreme period of decorative art. The inmost coffin, which was splendidly embossed, has been cleaned of all -the black resinous matter due to funeral libations. The gold figures of gods and other ornamentations are declared to be 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.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.