| Show CRO gathered at the entrance of the tomb of Tutankhamen I L amen who after more than years rears of innocuous desuetude desuetude desue desue- tude hide is coming into the modern modem spotlight of publicity i Royal Visitors Gre Create te Excitement at Tomb I Camera Men Scamper Over the Hillsides Like Portly Gazelles Shooting Noted Personages By ARTHUR Copyright 1923 1023 by North American Newt News paper Alliance and London Dally Daily Mall Mail LUXOR LUXOn Egypt Feb 23 The The official official om- om cial opening of ot the tomb was a a. very ery different affair from that of the secret seret se secret se- se cret ret entrance first effected Then it was an eerie and silent ceremony Sunday it was a a. noisy affair one tp make old Tutankhamen turn In his his' cramped golden sarcophagus The valley of the kings was crowded crowd crowd- ed at an early hour and at midmorning ing when the Dowager Sultana ar arrived arrived arrived ar- ar rived with her ladies ladles there was a bustle such as the ancient valley has never known in all its Hs modern his his- tory There were soldiers springing to salute officers with clanking swords shouting orders cinema operators operators operators oper oper- running up the hillsides ldes like portly gazelles while native boys climbed behind them with their ap apparatus ap- ap Crowds of ot European visitors in every kind of ot costume from equestrian equestrian equestrian eques eques- trian to regatta Egyptian notables looking very hot In European clothes and andred red tall black eunuchs In long frock coats dragomans In br bright silken robes robes robes-a a motley crew all aU swarmed and buzzed into the valleys SULTANA VISITS TOMB The Tho Sultana was wag taken down Into the tomb to look over the broken barrier wall Into the chamber beyond and everybody photographed her as she went In and again as she came out and soldiers saluted and dogs barked after atter she had gone her royal way with mounted police pollee trotting behind behind be behind be- be hind half halt smothered In dust Various Various Vari Van ous DUB other Important personages were taken down Into the tomb and then came picnic lunches and presently the queen of the Belgians and Field FJeld Marshal Lord Allenby high commissioner commissioner commissioner commis commis- of ot Egypt arrived and more the soldiers lined up and cameras cameras cameras cam cam- eras clicked It was a gay and animated animated animated ani ani- mated affair I dont don't know why it Is that disturbing disturbing dis dis- dis- dis this pharaohs pharaoh's oh s long rest has seemed so sad and solemn a business to me but today as on Friday niday my heart was heavy and my head full of dreams drams of ot other days The openIng openIng opening open- open Ing of ot this tomb persisted in seeming to mo me the disturbing of a sleeping man and forcing some sort of ordeal upon him and my feeling for him was one of ot Intense pit pity It I was as though he were somebody who had been left behind after all his friends and loved ones onea became dust somebody somebody some some- body who was all an alone in an alien alienage alienage alienage age who was being awakened to face faco staring eyes not Dot filled with reverence but curiosity ROOMS CRAMMED FULL The Tho great canopy Is only about five Inches from the wall of ot the room on one side but thero there Is just room enough to squeeze In on theother the tho other side Near It are several sacred paddles or oars for propelling a barque on which he would sail across I the tho skies in the train of ot the sun Bun The annex rooms are aro crammed with wonderful objects sacred objects sacred boats char- char I lots Jots boxes and so 10 on Among these are two unique little statues of gold goldor I or gilt gUt representing th tho king wearing I a a. crown and standing with his left foot forward 0 oft the back of ot a aing walking watkIng walk I ing lion the whole being but a few Inches high I There is also a a. large gold covered i box six feet high four feet square j I which may contain the royal wigs judging by similar boxes found In the tomb of Prince Hero aro are tome some I I fine alabaster V vases and a great number of boxes The actual burial I chambers are three or four feet lower lowr I Ithan than the first antechamber and one 1 has to step down into it Both Doth burial chamber and annex are now lit by arc lamps under tho the glare of ot which I the gold glitters gUtters astonishingly I Previous royal tombs which have havo been discovered have all aU been robbed and their heir contents sm smashed hed up The Theone Theone Theone one most valuable aspect of ot this discovery dis din- covery Is that the objects found Intact will explain fragments from these other tombs which have been For instance In the tomb of II It there was a lion with witha a wedge we-dge on the back projecting upwards upwards upwards up up- wards which wo we e can now flOW see gee was wan for I supporting a a. statue of the king Again I I hippo heads lion n heads and co cow I I dt heads from the tho wrecked k d tomb b of can enn now bo be Identified as 04 I I of ceremonial couches Again Agan curious ornaments in the I form of the Ankh or sign of life lite found on the tomb of II are now seen Been to be candlesticks somewhat somewhat some some- somei i what like those found In this tomb I do not think however that earlier I tombs ever ha had such magnificent ob objects ab- ab I b-I I and there can bo be little doubt that Egypt was waa enormously wealthy during the reign of Tutankhamen and was VIlS at height of ot her heg civilization |
