| Show T v Sketch of the Interior of the first opened chamber of Tutankhamen drawn by Arthur E. E P. P B. B t below eminent Egyptologist artist and now special correspondent of The Telegram at Luxor Egypt T The e r ketch was wu made from memory after a brief visit Tho The chamber as seen from the entrance is cut out 0 of f t the e rook rock but the wall on en the tho right is ie a II built partition covered with pink plaster In it Is la tho the sealed doorway In Inthe Inthe the bottom corner of which is i. the sealed up aperture mado made by thieves who entered the tho tomb soon oon after burial 1 On either side Ide of the tho door are black wooden statues of the king the wig skirts skirt and sandals undal covered w with I go gold goldleaf leaf as are also alo the two wooden I couches the one on the tho right with lion heads head that on en the left with hippo hippopotami heads r ht 1923 by London Dally Daily Mall Mail z 3 r 4 I 5 j J i d ri sa 4 Crr 4 Golden Shrine to Be 4 Opened Next Winter I rl Tomb of Tutankhamen to B BI Be Bep e p I Sealed Until Explorers Are Aret I t i L Ready to Proceed With t Excavation r 1 By ARTHUR KU t tt Copyright 1923 by North American tI tf Newspaper Alliance and Lon London on 4 Dally Daily Mall Mail r l' l I LUXOR Egypt Feb 27 I 27 I went up to the valley of ot the kings today to pay my last Jut ant respects to old Pharaoh Tutankhamen Tutankhamen Tutankhamen Tu Tu- before the excavators commence commenCe commence com com- mence the work of ot closing up the tomb eThis rh will be bo done in a 0 few days the entrance filled rUled to the top with stones atones which with mth the burglarproof Iron gate I already Inside will make the sepulchre and its historic relics quite safe from robbery It seems a pity thus to have ha piqued tho curiosity of ot the world and then on the very threshold of ot a 0 revelation i to c clamp amp down the lid but with the amount of ot work ahead it could hardly have been bean otherwise The next event of Importance will be bo the openIng open- open opening Ing of the golden shrine or canopy which will be undertaken next winter and this with tho the further exploration I of ot the burial chamber chambor and its Invaluable invaluable able treasures ought to keep public publio interest interest interest in- in terest at a high pitch PREDICTION TRUE Inside this huge shine which nearly I fills Ellis the tha whole room is another but smaller shrine or sarcophagus as ae I 1 reported and Inside that there will probably be both outer a ad d Inner coffins cof cot fins and finally tho mummy It willbe will willbe be remembered that I predicted there would not be b extensive corridors and rooms rooms- beyond the sealed door and th that t the king would be found alone ina In Ina a a. stone sarcophagus It Is la possible that a stone sarcophagus stands in inside inside inside in- in side the inner shrine at least Carter thinks it probable and if it so my prediction prediction prediction pre pre- diction is Js practically correct But none of ot us expected to find the great grut outer shrine which is unique and we thought the place would have been robbed whereas it seems to have escaped es escaped escaped es- es that fate and at any rate the mummy itself has not been touched EGYPT CLAIMS RELICS Lord Carnarvon showed the tomb to various friends today while other visitors visItors vis via obtained permits from the Egyptian Egyptian tian authorities have asserted their unquestioned proprietorship m in the discovery discovery discovery dis dis- covery and that this fact helped to de defeat defeat de- de e- e feat teat the attempted monopoly of the excavators Through the Invitation of the local government I was able tobe to tobe tobe be the first press representative to en enter enter en- en ter the inner chamber following its opening For the time being Interest here is beginning to wane and the many visitors visItors visitors vis vis- are slowly leaving Luxor but next winter there will be very exciting times indeed 1 rt x t i s |
