IMPORTANT FIND.
GOLD COFFIN IN EGYPT.
(Times Cables). LONDON, March 20
The Cairo correspondent of the Times says that Protessor Montet, of Strasbourg University, has discovered near Tams, in the Nile Delta Province, the first gold coffin since Tutankhamen’s.
It contained the first silver coffin ever found in Egypt, in which was a mummy believed to be that of King Psousennes, reputedly one of King Solomon’s fathers-in-law. Two bejewelled skeletons lay beside the sarcophagus, and a large vase, still unopened.
Tunis was the Pharaonic capital of Egypt from 1700 to 1200 B.C. Professor Montet explored the empty funerary chambers of the Kings of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Dynasties, who governed the Delia from 1100 to 950 B.C.
Tanis is an ancient city in the north-east of the delta, once the chief commercial city of Egypt. The ruins, near the south shore of Lake Men7,aleh, were in 1883-84 explored by Flinders Petrie.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 94, 21 March 1939, Page 7
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