VALLEY OF THE KINGS.
“A dirty little town, but as ancient as it is dirty,” is the description given to Luxor, headquarters of distinguished archaeologists for generations, by a New Zealander now serving with the First Echelon in Egypt, Private Stanley Griffin, in a letter to a relative in Christchurch, states the “Star-Sun.” Describing a tour he made in the district, Private Griffin states that the Valley of the Kings, just across the Nile from Luxor, looks as if it were the last place God made. A road of sorts leads up between two barren hillsides—just heaps of sand, schist, and boulders. “It is also called the Valley of the Dead, which is a very appropriate name,” he adds. “It was set apart some thousands of years ago a*, a burial place for kings. There are many tombs there, of which those of Tutankhamen and Rameses 11. are the most outstanding. Tunnels several chains long, cut into solid rock, lead to the . burial chambers, which are as big as an ordinary room, and a sarcophagus several tons in weight contains the casket that holds the mummy of the dead monarch or did, until it was removed.”
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Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 25, 18 October 1940, Page 4
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