8,000-YEAR-OLD GIRL.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 167, 17 July 1920, Page 6

8,000-YEAR-OLD GIRL.

<$»_. MUMMY FOR BRITISH MUSEUM

A practical ioke, pla.ln.3d by the ancient Egyptians, which has taken 5000 years 'to come to fruition, was one "of the many discoveries'mentioned by Professor Flinders Petrie in a lecture at University College, London. ' 1 "While we .were trying to tmd a way into a Queen's Pyramid," he said, "we discovered on a rock face a door which was ,-o beautifully and exactly fitted that it '."as difficult to see tho joints. We immediately set to work on this, thinking that we had found at last an entrance to tluv inner chambers. "After a considerable amount of work we removed the door and found —solid rock! It was a carefully arranged blind to baulk anyone who wanted to find the entrance into the .Royal Tombs, and it had been made about 3000 c.c. by someone with a sens© of humor."

A lantern slide photograph of a prehistoric girl, 8000 years old, whor-o h«ir and face-skiu are wonderfully preserved, and wfeo was discovered in n peaceful sitting position with her chin resting on her hand, was also shown, and Professor Petrie said that he hoped to be able* to bring this mummified figure to England for the British Museum.