EGYPTIAN DISCOVERIES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 305, 9 December 1936, Page 7

EGYPTIAN DISCOVERIES

Earlier in the week, states an English writer on April 23, we read of Ihe discovery of the body of a princess who died about 3600 B.C. by Professor Selim Hassan, during his excavations amongst the Giza Pyramids. But the interest in this single find has "been overshadowed by the more recent news the discovery by the British archaeologist, ,Mr W. B. Emery, of forty-two secret store chambers in a tomb at Sakkarah, near Cairo. Like many other great discoveries, their existence was revealed almost by accident —a tapping of the brickwork of the superstructure brought the response of a hollow sound. Of the forty-two store-cham-bers only about two-thirds have so far been opened. They eontain a rich variety of burial relies —vases which contained food for the. dead, decorated dises, flints, knives, arrows tipped with jvory—the whole described by Dr. George Reisner, the great Egyptologist, as the largest collection of burial relies ever found in a prvate tomb. And they belong to a period 2000 years before Tutankhamen —to the First Dynasty —and so are of inestimable value in throwing light on to the history of that remote period.