Show purse of king tut TUA Is missing 9 I 1 explorers fall to find well filled wallet left in tomb by ancient egyptian king FIND SMALL IMAGE OF KING antiquarians antiquarian treasure this a as most important discovery of all egyptologist to tells tell how tomb was saved from robbers robber luxor lexor egypt king tutankhamen tut ankh amen look some of his hill money w with ath him when he died but it was as gone and his purse also when the outer chamber was opened open e d by howard carter the archaeologists archeologists were quite sad about this for they believe there la Is only one example of such a purse in existence of all the fine things found in the outer room 0 of the disturbed resting place of king tutankhamen tut ankh amen the finest from the antiquarian standpoint P 0 int Is the Usha a small image of 0 the king himself that at least Is the ahe opinion of lord carnarvon tile the usha or answerer showing t the he defunct monarch in the guise of 0 osiris customarily was placed in royal tombs tomba with an inscription stating that the image mage was prepared pie pared to do any work imposed upon it then the tomb was sealed so tightly no one could get to the 11 and request it to do something back in what hat tutankhamen tut ankh amen anten may in his bis language have referred to as the good old days das of yore the pharaoh when lie he died was accompanied to the underworld by a slave sacrificed during the royal funeral ceremonies in more modern times the slave wits was allowed to live find anil the was substituted for him this wag w as done in the case of tut ankli amen rich loot in graves chicago tombs of the pharaohs phora phara love been gladdins Alad dins eaves caves and fair spoil for or robbers since tho the days of egypto glory and the earl of carnarvon Is not the first to find rich treasure in the grave of a dead ruler in speaking of whit what tut ankh amen missed prof U D D luckenbill egyptologist in charge of the 11 haskell askell oriental museum of the university of chicago came to the defense of carnarvon and an carter whose excavations in the valley of kings have recently been termed by some grave robbing it should be rn 11 said professor f assor luckenbill that it if competent archaeologists archeologists had bad not found tomb natives would have tind and with far less desirable results for science just in the last few years these natives have discovered some very ini important tombs we know tills this from tile the exquisite pieces of jewelry they have offered for stile sale to orienta lists naturally they will not tell where the tombs tire nie and consequently much valuable historical information Is lost the pyramids those tombs which were ner e to serve as the eternal homes tor for tile lie early ahn mobs were robbed of all their valuables by the sons and grandsons of the rulers for whom they were built construction 0 of these enormous and magnificent houses house for the dead proved an expensive business and resulted in the financial rutn ruin of egypt a change of dynasty and a period of chaos during which the rulers got what burial they could built their graves in n cliff with t the he next nest period th the monarchs or nobles started a new burial custom instead of building a tomb they excavated a burial room in the face of tile hie cliff in the plain west of thebes between the lie city and the edge of the desert the egyptians erected their mortuary temples but on account of the many arave grave robberies they went two otillea farther back into the hills for the acquill place of burial there they made tunnels from to feet I 1 long olig into the rocks tut ankli amens tomb la Is one of these it only escaped the depredations of the ancient and modern grave robbers because rameses VI a king of the twentieth dynasty was given a berth directly over tomb all the earth and rocks from kamesch Kames cs bur lal chamber tell fell down over the face of tomb completely burying it |