Show TOMES TOMBS OF THE PHARAOHS a an all find or if very A and honorable llono rable mummies SOME STRANGE FUNERAL processions professions PROCESS IONS tile azars czars brother bother abuse life ills wire wife Par nells lRe Tini timothy othy mobbed and 1114 eyes badly injured queeno queen Vio victoria toria in franc porciso nevis kewa OARO CAIRO march larch 23 dispatch san francisco chronicle Ch series aba result of recent explorations near tho the te templo of queen hattu at thebes la Is now known and la Is ol of a character ohara oter to arouse tho the keenest later interest in all students of egyptology indeed it is in ono a of tho the most meet important und and remarkable 1 finda over made lo 10 egypt tho find and of any importance preceding this ibid was that of tho the royal ruti mulles at dor der cl at ballad in 1871 this was made by aa arab who kept his discoveries secret for more them than ton tea years among arfons tile the mummies found by him I 1 were and princes dating an far back as 1700 before christ them were Rank eseA 11 II or rameses tho the great who win was the so ion coast the Israeli a the others were it II and ill also soil ott 1 I and I 1 the arat who found these tacio 1 before revealing Us ills discovery hulo baxla from 1 the mummy all the valuables that could easily bo and abold teem lo 10 too rusts thus it happened that many im relics wore and bod lew t and it i any valuable manuscripts and d strayed e in tho the present case the greatest pre alost oare care aliat liat lei beca acco taken to avoid aly such losses each case lafore before it Is id brought to the surface of the ground 14 1 opened and carefully examined by agents of the famous boblak Mos cuoi all manuscripts manuscript scripts jewels sod aud similar articles found aro are carefully laid aside la in safo safe keeping kec and a catal catalogue cal aloRie ogLe of them Is biado tho the mummies aro are brought to lbs open air and placed upon liters blora ax As noon leon an t a certain number are thus examined and arranged they oro aro carri carried 0 d upon the shoulders of th abo wor linen to t be bank of the alle nile set bueral oral miles distant these are strange funeral process procession lot nil hearing bearing tho the bodies of grout great egyptian por per an ages who died a thousand years ago tho the bearers being possibly lines donats dO dAts of tho the alistair dead those these processional process ionA match march in solemn state to the sound of weird elrd dirges chanted by the iho coffin bearers them salves who seem deeply with the iho claa of their work at riper the aro are placed on a stear nicamor vier and conveyed convey ud to this city to bo be placed in the abe boblak masente Mu this latest discovery was made about two thirds of a mile from the friol chero tho the royal boyi l mummies were found in fa 1671 this thin is la in tho the neighborhood of thebes theban the ancient capital of egypt and of luxor lexor and karnak tits temple of queen stands at tho the houd head vt of the buy bay on tho the river bank close under n m steep bluff of limestone near till this Is a descending I 1 irly through solid rook rock about fifteen yards yard at the mouth of if this bhatt 1 is an encampment of government officials onic lnla chals and out of this shaft as froom the mouth of at the mine have been hoisted then than mummies their cases and it wrappings ra plInK were painted at lol WOO years ngo ago yet their colors are n an bright as vollon first laid on the bodies aro are chiefly those of male dialo and fornale priests and of mern ber 0 of the royal family V bat makes this nad bad of special interest and i nine is tle the fact that it Is au all entirely now new ono |