Show THE TOMBS OF THE Tho The ingenuity displayed i by hy tho the an on ancient cleat clent Egyptians to prevent robbers robber from breaking into tho tue graven graes merits admiration from pr pres present s sont ont oat day dav ria engineers writes Dr Ho Bol sober chor chief chlo architect in the tho Prussian government in a work he ho haa hM just Juat completed on the tho sarcophagus 6 of or tho builder of or tho the second s ond pyramid who reigned In Egypt some years year ago The rhe lid of ot tho the ted rod granite sarcophagus sarcophagus hagus bogus was dovetailed with minute precision into the tho receptacle To pre pro prevent vent ent the tho cover from Crom being drawn back badt the Egyptian builders bored two holes In the lid at tho the edge not showing above These correspond corresponded ed cd exactly with two similar holes less lew deep drell than tItan tho the other ether two sunk Bunk In the die front of oi tho the receptacle rec Two cop copper copper copper per bolts were then placed In the tho lid lIet holes boles and at tho the moment the ear sar sarcophagus was wasi fully closed the tho holes met and the tho bolts bolte dropped In poal position lion tion from the upper holes partly in into Into into to the lower thus making it impose to move moe tho the lid lidIt lidIt lidIt It must have havo struck tho the Egyptian engineers that gravo grave robbers might get at the body bod by b turning the ear sar sarcophagus upside down in which case caso tho the bolts would glide back into original position and permit tho ii being drawn dm wn out To prevent this they tho filled tho the lower holes with wa wax and made the tho bolts hot Upon the lid being placed in position tho bolts boll i I molted melted their way Into the wa wax and S upon uOn cooling became so firmly fixed H cd I SI that nothing short of complete dc do S could cOull open tho the royal ro al lomb tomb It Il must have havo been bean a herculean lab lal labor labor lalor I or to hew the tho whole edge edgo away awa but that Is 15 i what grave gravo did I and all the wax can cnn still sun bo be ScOtt In inthe I II tho the boreholes Now York Sun |