VENGEANCE OF TOMB
MAN DIES IN ROBBING COFFIN DISCOVER!ES IN EGYPT Kecd. 9.5 a.m. CAIRO, Monday. Egyptian excavators have discovered the largest tomb yet unearthed in Egypt. It belonged to Raourer, the High Priest of the Goddess Neklieb, who flourished in the reign of Nefernrikara, third king of the Fifth Dynasty, in 2730 B.C. The tomb consists of three large halls, SO small chambers and 30 places tor the erection of statues to the dead. Forty-five statues have been recovered, most of them perfect. A man’s dismembered hand was found inserted in a coflin with a mummy. A handless skeleton was lying near. It is Presumed that a robber was killed by the subsidence of the tomb’s ceiling while attempting to rifle the mummy’s necklace of precious stones.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 894, 11 February 1930, Page 11
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