LUXOR INVESTIGATIONS
WORKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES. UNHEALTHY CONDITIONS PREVAIL. ?m> Association—By Tolsgra.pl>—Copyright LONDON, October 31. (Received Nov. 1, at 9.15 p.m.) The Luxor district around Thebes is half a. marsh, as the Nile flood is very high this season and has still not completely receded. The Valley of the Kings is cruelly hot, but Mr Howard Carter’s workmen are hard at work preparing for the reopening of’.Tutankhamen’s tomb. — A. and N.Z. Cable. A paper on “Egypt as a Field for Anthropological Research” was presented by Professor P. E'. Newberry at a meeting of the Royal Society in Liverpool. Egypt, he declared, was extraordinarily rich in material for the anthropologist. The past two or three decades had been prolific in surprises. Mines of hidden wealth have been unearthed where but a few years ago people saw only the sands and rocky defiles of the desert. Since last year the most sensational archaeological • discovery of modern times had been made in a place that had been abandoned by many excavators as exhausted. This discovery, due to the untiring persistence of an Englishman, promised to yield results of extraordinary interest, but it would take years before they could be adequately published.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19008, 2 November 1923, Page 7
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