FURTHER EGYPTIAN DISCOVERIES
T UTAKKHAMEN S TOMB EXI’LOK AXIOM S. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] f Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] CAIRO, Nov. A Discoveries in the third chamber of Tutankhamen's tomb arc of great historical interest. They represent everything used at the funeral, including HU small boats of two sorts, the first of which were used in the body’s journey from buxor across the Nile, while the others were intended for the transport of the body to Heaven. There was a box of small statues with Tutankhamen’s head and a bird’s body giving the Egyptian conception of the afterlife, also two chariots lacking ornateness, supposed to bo used in hunting. They arc the lirst of their kind to bo discovered,
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3496, 4 November 1926, Page 10
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120FURTHER EGYPTIAN DISCOVERIES Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3496, 4 November 1926, Page 10
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