MUMMIES FUNERAL
CAIRO, June 15. At dawn to-day a weird "funeral procession," at least 5000 years overdue, wound its stealthy way through the deserted Cairo streets. It was a procession of dead kings and queens of Egypt, twenty kings and eight queens, whose mummies were being transferred from the Cairo Museum to the new Mausoleum designed as the last resting place of Zaghlul Pasha, the late Wafdist leader.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 301, 15 August 1932, Page 6
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68MUMMIES FUNERAL Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 301, 15 August 1932, Page 6
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