Show I r. This Is U In a a. stran strangely neglected tomb In Ine inthe the e Valley VaHey of the Kings Icings at Thebes the Egyptian expedition of the Metropolitan Metropolitan Met Met- museum of art has found rare paintings from the brush of an anold anold anold old Egyptian master The tomb which now takes rank as one of the art treasures of or Egypt was built years ago aso for or an tEam lan politician named Ken-Amun Ken who served as s chief steward to the Pharaoh IL Ken Ken Ken-Amun's Amun's tomb was cut back bad into nto the depths of a rocky hillside In n the tho royal cemetery at Thebes It has las been known for almost a a. century cen cen- tury tory but has never before been thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- explored and studied Norman Norman Norman Nor Nor- man de Garls Garis Davies of the tIle Metropolitan Metro- Metro politan expedition pushed his way through the crumbling mazes of the underground passages and succeeded succeed succeed- ed in tracing the plan of the Ule tomb halls stairways S 'S and chambers and also reproduced many of the paintIngs paint paint- Ings which are arc now pronounced some of the choicest work T of theE the E Egyptian 1 Uan painters painter's brush The paintings were sadly defaced In n ancient times Umes by robbers who ho broke Into the tomb These vandals van van- dais dals went through the length of the tomb suite erasing every portrait of oC Ken Amun Amun every picture of or his wife or other relatives and even eten the picture of or his dog But with all this damage and the further damage damage dam dam- age ace wrought by time much beautiful beautiful ful CuI art remains The seeds reeds e s of or the Russian steppe grass Tass are arc thrust into the ground by bythe bytho ho tho plant i itself el The plant forms a coil coll of fiber and on wet days the fiber twists and works Its Us way into the ground On hot days das the fiber untwists but remains In a a. fixed position position po po- po- po by means of a barb at the end holding It firmly under the soil soU The cucumber usually has a temperature temperature tem tern one degree lower than that of the surrounding atmosphere Hence the expression cool as a cu cu- cu cumber Four commercial air services are maintained in Japan by private com corn |