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TOMB OF EGYPTIAN RULER VICINITY OF PORT SAID CAIRO, Feb. 18. (Received Feb. 19, at 9.37 p.m.) A French professor, M. Montet, has unearthed at Sanelhagar, near Port Said, the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Psou Psennes, who ruled from 1067 to 1080. B.C. The tomb contained a quantity of valuable historic material, also a coffin, a red granite sarcophagus containing another unopened coffin, a collection of solid gold plate of exquisite workmanship, solid silver plates laid out on a gold table near a golden altar, and also the skeleton of a pet dog* The dimensions of the chamber are 15 feet by 9 feet.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24227, 20 February 1940, Page 9
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