Show in I 1 tomb the art of exploring the gloomy of egyptian tombs has made progress since groping near the coffin of king choops in the pyramid broke the coffin lid byron says mr flinders petrie writing on the problem by what light the work of making the ancient in these close and confined repositories of the dead was performed takes occasion to observe that in our latter day excavations there la no need to invoke the light a very email amount of reflected sunshine being enough to work by mr petrie lias himself him self taken photographs at gizea which require far more light than is needed by u painter or a sculptor by means of four successive reflections of sun ehin efroni common sheets of tin plate such au tin lids and he feels certain there tor that with larger reflectors there would be whatever in lighting any part of atie kiner 1 more brightly than by email lamps though the lamps that the ancient egyptians used were in his opinion like our night lights feeble but smokeless and capable of being used in the form of a large raft of floating wicks london spectator |