EGYPT’S ANCIENT KINGS
OUTSTANDING DISCOVERY NEAKI TANIS. LONDON, March 20. The Cairo correspondent of The I Times says that Professor Montet, of ! Strasbourg University, discovered (near Tanis (the Biblical Zoan) in the : delta province, the first gold coffin since Tutankhamen's. It contained! the first silver coffin ever found ini Egypt, in which was a mummy believed to be that of King Psousennes ' ’reputedly one of King Solomon's! | fathers-in-law. Two bejewelled skele-] I tons lay beside the sarcophagus and a I large vase, still unopened. I Tanis was the Pharaonic capital .from 1700 to 1200 B.C. 1 Professor Montet explored the ' empty funerary chambers of the kings I of the twenty-first and twenty-second j dynasties governing the delta from |llOO to 950 B.C.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 2
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