Wheat From Mummy
GROWTH NOT POSSIBLE LONDON, April 23. “I do not believe it," said the British Museum Egyptologist, Sir Wallis Budge, when told that a grain of wheat found in Tutankhamen's tomb had sprouted on the farm of Herman Trelle, of Alberta, Canada. “I am so tired of answering queries as to whether mummy wheat can mature that I have printed forms of denial," Sir Wallis added. “The explanation is that the Syrians stack their wheat in Egyptian tombs. Some wheat found in these tombs has matured, but it was only five years old. “I once opened a 19th. dynasty tomb and brought wheat to England, where the director of Kew Botanic Gardens tried to mature it under blue, white, yellow and red glass, but tho germs were absolutely dead. “Ask any farmer if he will buy five-year-old wheat. That is the answer to the absurd question," said Sir Wallis.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6541, 4 May 1931, Page 7
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