Show S beds new light on egyptology F unearthing of royal tomb greatest archaeological discovery of modern times sepulchers CUT IN HILLS tomb of tutankhamen 1350 B S C not only yields yield vast treasures treasure but Is 1 expected to reveal historical lore london that the recent unearth ing of a royal tomb near benr luxor lexor Is tile the greatest archaeological discovery I 1 in A egypt in modern times already Is certain how great in the light which it throws on the vil vanished dished civilization that has made the wisdom of proverbial down doan all the ages the discovery way may proe to be this remains for the secret of tile the still unopened inner chamber to reveal the story of tile the discovery made by the earl of carnarvon whose health has enabled him to devote himself to the costly bobby of egyptology and upward howard carter ani ler perhaps the finest living archaeological draughtsman reads like a ron romance jance he valley of the tombs of the kings where the find was mode made to Is a desert ravine lulng behind the barren cliffs and hills which form the mighty walls of the nile valley on the western bank of the river some lull miles above calm cairo sepulcher cut in hills here the pharaohs Phara of the eighteenth nineteenth and twentieth d cover covering lith the period from about I 1 alio llio to 1000 1010 IL C were laid to rest in sepulchers cut into the sides of the lie hills the burini burial chambers being deep down in the solid rock k ap preached pron pro ched ached b flights of steps and corridors genen gen enily lly ornamented liy by rich wall paintings and ims bas the existence M c these tombs has been the common kio biow ledge uledge of f nil all the centuries though the preele precise location of each tins has not been known for 2000 or years robbers have been busy with ith their treasures but for more then than a generation past mr carters faith that tourists in thebes were st epting over i treasures in the bowels of tile the earth has not fult faltered ered despite all that Is known of the past rifling of the famous site elte thi thac beg beginning fi ining of the story of the discovery discor ery goes back 33 years yea when then he began searching the heban for n key to ancient egypt in that period he a number of minor prizes but aln e lord carnarvon Can irvon arvon joined forces with ham im 17 years ago the discovery of the husos tablet wai their greatest reward up to the present recently after four font jaye days work in the heart of tile the small sacred bas baan n he and his party unearthed a step continued digging diat ang resu resulted ted in the ex of a stairway which left led right beneath tile the tomb of IX an unimportant king who lived some dome years ago at Us its foot was wn a door inscribed with the protocol of 0 another pharaoh tutankhamen one of the most important kings of egypt T wag the lie one remaining tem tomb b 0 ot f which there had been any hop ot of finding in the valley of the tombs of the kinra but tle tile opening of the tomb that the excavators excava tors had find stani blod upon a JI Jl covery of unprecedented importance no other oilier rohnl tomb that has been opened in egypt has con tallied such as the tomb of gave up the llena of 0 the archers nr chers rhone phone upon nn an nee nce old collection of gems coma and gold and tin aln a collection which would fetch upward of in pay any hut the value of it ohp ds wa not to be stated to tn terms hermn of money third Cha cambe not net entered Ente reil the tomb nna a treasury of the glories of the Egypt egyptian lan court of 1350 IS io R B C there opre dupre relt couch couches ingold with ivory and jenels Jc juls ls there vini tho the kings throne rind nn the kings hues robes two statues showed him in ID his hl babit imholt sq B he fired Char charlota lots were there for the dead benl Miar riding biasse s of feol for hlf his eating musleah dentri documents the nonte of the enter showed Bli owel that tile the amb had breu dis tur ll at least once fn an the past to in the third ahn chamber aber nod and it II Is III hoped doos does amt the he mummy of 0 alili tharol chamber tins has not yet been elered the tomb binl has been pealed analo until jord 1 ord Varn carnarvon arvon who has returned return pt to Yn angland gland goes buck back with a picked hond of experts to supervise the rn co lumny 10 lo the museum nt at cairo then the secret of if ih I 1 im inner chal challiner liber will ie be |