Show ne unlit on one of f th the ayi pyramids 1 I I 1 the british museum the grea great t european storehouse of thins things out of the ordinary has hundreds of egyptian mummies of all dynasties carefully stowed away within its walls walla some of these are comparatively recent efforts at embalming bal baly balding ming ning and others date data lack back to the wide revolving shades of centuries cr past the oldest of the entire coll ec tiou tion is the tha mummy of ile he was a king in egypt in what is known to history as the fourth dynasty and wore WOM his golden t tiara j a and sat on the throne of thrones years before tho wise men followed the star oi of fate till it stopped over that lowly hovel in bethlehem where the infant jesus lay Myke was the builder 0 of f the third pyramid at ghiseh where his hia headless headle Ss mummy was discovered in the year 1836 the stone coffin in which he was being transported to england was wai lost fit at sia sea and lay at the bottom of the ocean for two years yeara before being recovered it is seldom that a maus mans bones are subjected to vicissitudes especially or years after his hia death st louis republic |