TREASURES FROM THE TOMB
FINDS OF HISTORICAL INTEREST. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Cairo, Nov- *• The discoveries In the third chamber of Tutankhamen’s tomb ore of historical interest. They represent everything used at the funeral, incluaing 30 small boats of two ,ort “’ , , first of which was used in the body* journey from Luxor across the Nile; the others were intended for the transport of the body to heaven. There i» also a box of email statute* ankhamen’s head and a bird’s body, giving the Egyptian conception of the after-life, and two chariots lacking ornateness, supposed to be used in hunting. They are the first of their kin” discovered.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1926, Page 4
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