TUTANKHAMEN’S MUMMY.
PROTEST BY SIR RIDER HAGGARD. London, February 13. Sir Rider Haggard, in a letter (o (he “Times,” suggests that aflerthe necessary X-ray examination and wax models have been made, Tutankhamen’s mummy should he sealed iq> in the chamber of the Great Pyramid in such fashion that only the complete destruction of the pyramid would reveal it. TJe adds: “The relics of people who in their way were as great as we are and certainly more religious, should he sacred, and it is indecent and unholy to put mummies of great Kings in glass cases in the Cairo museum to rot and become the merry jest of tourists. The greatest horror by which the Pharoahs were obsessed was the fear of desecration of tliejr tomb. “I once took a small share in this unhallowed game, and regard it as not least among my errors.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2544, 17 February 1923, Page 4
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145TUTANKHAMEN’S MUMMY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2544, 17 February 1923, Page 4
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