Show 4 F1NDIU PHARAOH In the May Century are two j roiusely illustrated articles under the above caption cap-tion describing discovery of Pharaohs tomb and picturing its contents From he first article by Mr Wilson the photog rapher we quote this account of the way in which the tomb was located In1 line of tombs beyond the Ramesseum lived lour sturdy Arabs named Abder Rasoul They suppljed guides and donkeys I don-keys to tourists who aesired to visit the urns Thebes and sold them 1 genuine and spurious antiquities When they found a mummy it being forbidden bylaw by-law to sell it the head and hands and feet were wrenched off and sold on the sly while the torso was kicked about the ruined temples until the jackals came and carried it away I purchased a head and a hand of one of the brothers amid the dark shadows of the temple at Qurneh Early in 1881 circumstantial evidence pointed to Ahmed AbderRa soul as the one who knew more than he would tell Professor Maspero caused his arrest and he lay in prison at Keneh for some months He also suffered the bastinado and the browbeating of the women repeatedly I he resisted bribes and showed no melting mood when threatened with execution His lips told no more than the unfound tomb and not as much Finally his brother Mohammed regarded the offer of bak shish which Professor Maspero deemed it wise to make as worth more to him than any sum he might hope to realize from future pillaging and made a clean breast of the whole affair How the four brothers ever discovered the hidden tomb has remained a family secret On July 5th 1881 the wily Arab conducted Herr Emil Brugsch Bey curator cura-tor of the BuJab Museum to Deirel Bahari and pointed out the hiding place so long looked for A long climb it was up the slope of the western mountain till after scaling a great limestone cliff a huge isolated rock was found Behind this a spot was reached where the stones appeared to an expert observer and tomb searcher to have been arranged by hand rather than spattered by some upheaval up-heaval of nature There said the sullen sul-len guide and there the enterprising Emil Brugsch Boy with more than Egyptian alacrity soon had a staff of Arabs at work hoisting the loose stones from a well into which they had been been thrown The shaft had been sunk into the solid limestone to the depth of about forty feet and was about six feet square Before going very far a huge palm log was thrown across the well and a block and tackle fastened to it to help bring up the debris When the bottom of tho shaft was reached a spbterranean passage was found which ran westward some twentyfour feet and then turned directly northward continuing into the heart of tho mountain straight except where broken for about 200 feet by an abrupt stairway The passage terminated in a mortuary chamber about thirteen by twentythree feet in extent and barely six feet in night There was found the mummy of King Pharaoh of the Oppression Op-pression with nearly forty others of kings queens princes and priests |