QUEEN'S DESERT TOMB.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 5 (Supplement)

QUEEN'S DESERT TOMB.

NINE GOLDEN BRACELETS. The Sahara Desert has encroached hundreds of miles eastward during the centuries since the great days of Egyptian civilisation, and has in consequence buried in sand many forgotten cities and centres of population. Ono often thinks of the tieasure lying on the floor of the ocean, but the treasure'buried under the desert sands must- also be incalculable. A sensational discovery was made recently, not on the Egyptian side, where the sand almost, succeeded in overwhelming even the mighty Sphinx, but on the western side of the desert. The body of some ancient Queen of the Sahara was found beneath the sand. On her arms were eighteen bracelets, nine of gold and nine of silver; five necklaces of jewels were round her neck, and on her head was a diadem of gold starred with jewels. There was much exquisitely-carved furniture in the tomb, and near by were

(piles of jewels—-emeralds, rubies, onyx and so on. On the opposite side was I found a super!) statuo of a woman carved i in stone. The date of this tonit> is ( placed at least a thousand years before I the Christian era.