SARCOPHAGUS OPENED
:h Ls MUMMY OF BIBLE KING FOUND 11 Is lc i Received March 21, 5.5 p.m. ie CAIRO, March 21. King Farouk officially opened the e sarcophagus found at Tanis by Pro,h fessor Monet of the Strasbourg University. It was the first gold coffin ic found since that of Tutankhamen. It xt was at first thought to contain the ’ mummy of King Prousenes, a reputed father-in-law to King Solomon, but it has now been ascertained that the mummy is that of King Shishak who preceded King Prousenes. Tanis is an ancient city in the north-east of the delta, once the chid commercial city of Egypt. The ruins, near the south shore of Lake Menzaleh, were in 1883-84 explored by Flinders Petrie. In the Book of Kings, chapter 14, it is recorded that Shishak, King of Egypt, in the fifth year of King Rehoboam’s reign, sacked Jerusalem and took away all ils treasu
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 68, 22 March 1939, Page 7
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