Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-10 | Page 3 | Explorer Reveals near Romance of King Tuts' Widow

Explorer Reveals Near Romance of King e Widow e Manuscripts Said to Show Egyptian Queen of Years Ago Offered Herself as Bridal Prospect c t CHICAGO Nov 10 AP AP-An AP An in incipient incipient incipient in- in romance of nearly years ago ago ago-a a proposal of ot marriage by the wI widow w of King Tut Amen to toa toa toa a Hittite prince prInce- was prince was revealed to today today to to- day by H H. H. H Von Der Per Osten of the Oriental Institute of the University o of Chicago who has r returned turned from froma a year of or excavating among hmong burled buried Hittite cities s of Asia Minor The Egyptian queen offered herself herself her her- self as a bridal prospect In a communication communication communication com com- to a Hittite king askIng asking asking ask ask- ing him if Ir he Ite had a son on eligible to marry her ller The scientist said the le q queen e n was as very young at the te time lime out did am not give her ner age The answer er was not known but Mr Von VonDel VonDer VonDer Der Del Osten Iud hed a mass of manuscripts manuscripts manuscripts manu manu- scripts and inscriptions to decipher and these may throw further light lighton on the affair These relics of ot a powerful race or group of races which mastered all of western Asia from the eighth to the twelfth centuries B.C. D.C. B. B C C. C and long have been a puzzle to archeologists and explorers are expected to throw considerable new newlight newlight newlight light on pre-Christian pre civilization Mr Von Der Del Osten who covered more than miles of Hittite territory territory territory ter ter- Jn In an automobile accompanied accompanied accompanied l nied fed only b by y his wife discovered five fifty-five settlements in Asia Minor 1 against three of ot which previously ly had been known own Inscriptions ns already transcribed by the Chicagoan Indicate that the Hittites were the allies of Troy in the Trojan wars and also that they invaded Babylon ten centuries before the great Babylonian conquest conquest con con- quest recorded in jn n the bible Other writings led to the belief that the therace therace therace race did not spring from Armenia as once believed bellev d but came carafe into their lands from the south of Rus Rus- sia fla The capital was called Hat Hat- but the exact location was not determined