CANNOT BE REBURIED
MUMMIES OF PHAROAHS CAIRO, May 20. Plans to rebury 25 mummies of famous Pharaohs of ancient Egypt in their original rock tombs at Luxor were abandoned to-day. Two scientists who examined the mummies in Cairo museum said they would crumble to dust if taken to Luxor, 400 miles up the Nile. For six years the fate of the mummies has been in the balance—ever since the Government decided that it was “indecent” to expose them to the public gaze in the museum.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 8
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