TUTANKHAMEN’S WHEAT
ARABS HOAX TRAVELLERS
A grain of wheat buried with King Tutankhamen in 1353 B.C. is reported to have grown into a plant on an Alberta (Canada) farm. The sceptical, however, say this is impossible. After exhaustive tests, they assert, scientists have found that wheat even 17 years old will not germinate, 1vears, in fact, being the very limit during which the wheat seed keeps its life. So-called mummy wheat is modern wheat which has been rubbed in the Nile mud by the Arabs to give it an ancient appearance. It is then imposed on tourists ns a pretended discovery in tombs.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6841, 23 April 1932, Page 9
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103TUTANKHAMEN’S WHEAT Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6841, 23 April 1932, Page 9
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