WELL-GUARDED TREASURES.
NOT A SINGLE THEFT.
LONDON, March 4. One most remarkable fact in connection with the discovery of the tomb of Tutenkhamun is that not a single object has yet appeared on the market purporting to come from the tomb, says the Luxor correspondent of the Times. This is a tribute to the painstaking work of Mr. Howard Carter. The fact is extraordinary, because since the days of the early tomb robbers a large part of the population has Ik en scientifically engaged in stealing arid smuggling. Generally no sooner in a large find made than objects from it are- sold clandestinely. In one notorious case, where the distinguished excavator was not present at the discovery, he found on his arrival that the mummy had been completely stripped of jewels and articles of value. Several other excavations are at present going on in Egypt, and there is an active secret trade in minor r.i tides said to come from them, but so far as is known not even a. "fake" has yet been reported as coining from Tutenkhamun's tomb. The Earl of Carnarvon's staff will shortly resume the preparation of the articles for packing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18348, 14 March 1923, Page 9
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