5000-YEAR-OLD WATER
FOUND IN EGYPTIAN TOMB. London, Sept. 10. The alabaster canopic chest of Queen Hetepheres, found in her tomb two months ago, contained a liquid of about the same density as sea water. This is the first time water has been discovered preserved in an Egyptian tomb, and, according to a communique, it comes not from one of the later periods but from the older Pyramid Age (nearly 5000 years ago). In this liquid were immersed four packets of viscera wrapped in linen. It consists of a 3 per cent, solution of natron (sesqui-carbonate of soda) in water, the natron being the usual Egyptian natron which contains common salt and sulplate of soda.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 27 September 1927, Page 3
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