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IN TUTANKHAMEN’S TOMB. GREAT HISTORICAL INTEREST NEW TYPE OF CHARIOT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received 10.45 a.m. to-day. CAIRO, Nov. 2. The discoveries in the third chamber of Tutankhamen’s tomb are of great historical interest. They represent everything used at the funeral, including thirty small boats of two sorts, the first of which were used in the body’s journey from Luxor across the Nile, and. the others are intended for the transport of the body to heaven. There was also found a box of small statues with Tutankhamen’s head and a bird’s body, giving the Egyptian conception of the after life; also two chariots, lacking ornateness and supposed to be used in hunting. , They are the first of their kind discovered.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 November 1926, Page 5
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123MORE TREASURES Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 November 1926, Page 5
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