ROMANCE OF A JEWEL
A jewel with a wonderful hutory lay in a glass case at the Royal Society's recent conversazione at Burlington House. It is" of cornelian, lapis, lazuli, and turquoise (the Express isays), and was made by order of the Pharoah of Upper Egypt 3400 years before the birth of Christ. The Pharoah gave it to one of his Court favourites; when the favourite died it was buried with him in his magnificent tomb at <xerzeh, some 40 miles away from modern Cairo. A body-snatcher broke open the tomb, but the hfcavy slabs that formed the roof fell on him ancf crushed him flat. Then the wind came ,and the sand, and year by year the tomb | was buried deeper, so that it lay for centuries hidden in* the desert. Last March Professor Flinders Petrie and ; his excavating party found it. The ] fallen roof and the brushed body of • the thief told their own tale. They found the beautiful jewel at which a Court artificer had wrought, perhaps for years, fifty centuries ago.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 August 1913, Page 6
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175ROMANCE OF A JEWEL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 August 1913, Page 6
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