MISSING FROM LOUVRE.
PAPYRUS DISAPPEARS. ' By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright. • Paris; March 23. A ROLL of papyrus, 70ft long, dealing with the ritual of the dead, is missing from the Louvre. " ■?* , RITUAL OP THE DEAD. ... • The missing roll is probablv that known from the name of. its former owner as the Prisse papyrus. It contains a work composed in the reign of a king of the fifth dynasty, and. computed to be itself of the age of upwards «f 2500 B.C. The papyri discovered in Egypt have often been found in tombs', and in the hands, or swathed with the bodies," of mummies. The ritual of the dead is most frequently the subject. The most • ancient Egyptian papyrus now known contains accounts of the reign of Kinp- Assa (3580-3536 8.C.).
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15566, 25 March 1914, Page 9
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