ANCIENT EGYPT
7 TUTANKHAMEN'S REIGN ADDRESS AT MUSEUM The Inst of the winter series of lectures at the Auckland War Memorial Museum was given in the museum library yesterday afternoon, Mr. J. B. Paterson pre- , siding over a large attendance. Hie speaker was the Rev. Angus Mac Donald, who gave an address on lutankhamen. Mr. Mac Donald dealt with'the circumstances in Egypt leading to the leign of .Tutankhamen in the 18th dynasty. The 'ruler was particularly notable for restoring the religion of Amen. Although the leign of Tutankhamen was comparatively brief and the ruler was only a young man, 1 he had been buried with all the pomp and ceremony due to a Pharaoh. Mr. Mac Donald went on to describe the romance of the discovery of 1 utanß- / ha men's tomb in 1922, and its excavation by Mr. Howard Carter and Lord Oailiarvon. . , , i;j„ e A comprehensive series of lantern slide illustrated tha great archaeologica va u / of the articles revealed in the tomb after 23 centuries. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21333, 7 November 1932, Page 11
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