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Show Renovated Statue of . Queen.on Exhibition There Is now to be seen at the Cairo museum In that city, the statue of an ' ancient queen which was recovered In-pieces In-pieces from a quarry where It had been hurled. The lady vas Queen Hatsche- ; put and her effigy had been removed . and thrown Into a quarry at the -In-" stance of Thothmes.. Ill upon tha queen's death In 1480 B. O. The excavations exca-vations near the temple Deir-El-Ba-. harl, at Luxor, have occupied the expe-dltlon expe-dltlon for years. In 1927 It was con.' , firmed that, all the queen's statues in the temple had been ordered destroyed. After the mutilation or destruction the pieces were thrown by Thothmes' retainers re-tainers Into an abandoned quarry nearby. near-by. Finally, 85 years ago, when the temple was first cleared, all the debris .. from It was piled together. The espe-: - - -ditlon has been employing as many as 700 Egyptian laborers al a time in the; task . of retrieving the fragments of the burled stalues and about 100,000 tons of rubbish have been removed. Fragments of several of these statues hare been recovered and are being assembled, as-sembled, but the work Is exceedingly tedious. |