EGYPT IN LONDON.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1923, Page 4

EGYPT IN LONDON.

S X i:\V IXTKIiKST i„\ HI! ITISH \ \ Ml'SKi'al TKKASi'RKH. I j 1 j.oxdox. lx?i► r. Si!• i’.‘;■ 111• -1 a. \Wllis liudgo. keeper ! Egypt i:m and Assyrian :ililii|nit at llu- lli-iti.-li Museum. whose lvtircii.• •;11 uas iMiniir,"i; l. has been a -lied In 1 1 l;im Ins post ini' ;i not lie !• year. Tile ills'every <.(lie I’haruah Tnt-ankh-Amen's t«>ni Ij near Luxor, I'l-pcr Egypt. leix rnaiie liim one ut' the busiest nien in the .Museum and his departli’.ent tile most I><>I>;1 1 :ir v. ith \ isilovs. A- liiere are o.S.h'M objects in the j F.gypliun galleries. tin- ta-k of explain- j illy whi-h belong to 11 1 - or tlia.t I dynasty, and why. i~ not light. j Visitors. are still a little hax.y ahout 1 Tiit-ankh-Amen and Ills tomb. Two women about to visit Egypt. insisted that tlie tomb tv,is at the museum and pleaded for penni-sion to see it bobux they went . Sir 1 irnest hardly knows whether to be pleased or not at tlie notoriety sudden! • tiiru-i upon his department by tlie discovery of relies of the i'liareao Tur-ankii-Amen. Uis welcome to tlie j distimtiiishn 1 Egyptologist : o l.ir a it j 5 shows an awakened interest in his life i st miy. j “iiut." he im-ists. "why rro to J Kyiv jll to o'." Egyptian antirpiities ? | There is far lucre to be seen and learned here, (live a boy live years' study with a. library at his command, in these galleries. and he will know all that is S ti, b- known. B "Moreover lie will see nothin;/, lint K genuine exhibits here, winch is far |j| more than uni he said of Egypt, where b the trade it) forgeries ha - reached sean- ’ dale as dimensions. '