Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1938-03-04 | Page 4 | Accident Taps Riches

Accident Taps Riches Treasure has been brought to light near Cairo, Egypt, by an excavator's ex-cavator's lucky accident. He stumbled stum-bled on the burial place of middle-class middle-class Egyptian men and women of 5,000 years ago. In the graves were found objects of art and entertainment. entertain-ment. Beautifully carved articles made of alabaster, schist, dolomite and breccia were found, three of them vessels of a kind previously unknown. A knife of flint is so fine and thin as to be practically transparent. trans-parent. A statuette of a goddess wears a silver crown, the eyebrows, necklace and the nails of fingers and toes being of gold. A set of chessmen chess-men indicates that the early Egyptians Egyp-tians played with 10 fewer pieces than are now used.