FINDS IN EGYPT
GOLD AND SILVER UOFriNS. RELATION TO KING SOLOMON. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, March 20. The Cairo correspondent of “The Times” says that Professor Montet. of Strasbourg University, has discovered near Tanis, in the Nile Delta Province, the first gold coffin since Tutankhamen’s. It contained the ' first silver coffin ever found in Egypt, in which was a mummy believed to be that of King Psousennes, reputedly one of King Solomon’s- fathers-in-law. _ Two bejewelled skeletons lay beside the sarcophagus, and a large vase, still unopened. . Tanis was the Pharaonic capital ol Egypt from 1700 to 1200 B.C. Professor Montet' explored the empty funerary chambers of the Kings of the Twentyfirst and Twenty-second Dynasties, who governed the Delta from 1100 to 950 B.C.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1939, Page 5
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