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jackal and nine captives. Had Carter examined a few inches below the necropolis seal he would have found the seal bearing the name of Tut-Ankh-Amen, but he hurriedly filled in the steps and rushed off to cable Carnovan in England the message that swept the world, with him, in a ferver of excitement; "At last have made a wonderful discovery in Valley;a magnificent tomb with seals intact; recovered same for your arrival; congratulations." He secured also as soon as possible the help of Mace and Burton from the staff of the Metropolital Musem, and the late Breasted of the city of Chicago.

[Illustration of necropolis seal - ME ]

On November 26, a second doorway was found, thirty feet below the first. Carter poked a hole and with a candle took the first glimpse; then with an electric torch Carnovan had to content himself with one glimpse. But it had been enough. Both men went crazy with joy, and the world followed them.

Tut-Ankh-Amen was lucky to avoid discovery until real archaeological science was able to handle him and his treasures. Fifty years ago his tomb would have been plundered; the gold and gems would have been highly dipenced and widely dispersed. A hundred years ago the best efforts of excavators at the time would have failed dismally, tradgicly indeed, to preserve the beautiful fragilities of many of hte exquisite articles, for the archaeologists had not yet learned how to measure, to photograph, to record, to interperate, and to preserve all at the same time.

The world has not stopped marveling at the magnificent mass of tumbled household articles. They are stupified by their profusion of richness and artistry not only those first intruders upon three thousand years of Pharahonic privacy, but that still tongue-tied every visitor to the Cairo Museum. The sarcophagus of pink granite, the gilded beds, the walking sticks with carved handles of alternate ebony heads of Ethiops and ivory headsof Caucasionscaptives, the glut of gold and gems, made "King Tut" the resurrected " son of the sun " a household word.

Inside the store chamber and facing the door, his paws barely protruding from a shawl over his jackal figure, crouched Anubis, the ever-vigilant god of the dead. Near by stood treasure chests full of personal jewelry from the Pharoahs use in the after-life beyond his tomb. 

His writing materials and palletes, his hunting chariots and decorated bow-cases for use in future hunts, the fully rigged barques in which the king would accompany the great sun god across the sky and back below the world through pitch-black caverns to the next day's starting point: these and scores, yes hundreds, of other objects appropriate to Pharoahonic burial lay scattered about in odd confussion.

At the back of another chamber stood the gilded, carved shrine in which were four jars with the viscera of the dead Tut-Ankh-Amen were deposited. Before the beautifully decorated faces of the shrine stood like gardian angels, lovely statuettes of the tutelary goddesses Isis, Nephtys, Selkit, and Nuth. They face the shrine and stand with outstreached arms in upright loveliness. above the head of each is a row of fourteen gilded solar cobra heads. From the top of the canopy rise on each side 13 other large cobras, thje head of each surmounted by the present sun disk.

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jackal and nine captives. Had Carter examined a few inches below the necropolis seal he would have found the seal bearing the name of Tut-Ankh-Amen, but he hurriedly filled in the steps and rushed off to cable Carnovan in England the message that swept the world, with him, in a ferver of excitement; "At last have made a wonderful discovery in Valley;a magnificent tomb with seals intact; recovered same for your arrival; congratulations." He secured also as soon as possible the help of Mace and Burton from the staff of the Metropolital Musem, and the late Breasted of the city of Chicago. [Illustration of necropolis seal - ME ] On November 26, a second doorway was found, thirty feet below the first. Carter poked a hole and with a candle took the first glimpse; then with an electric torch Carnovan had to content himself with one glimpse. But it had been enough. Both men went crazy with joy, and the world followed them. Tut-Ankh-Amen was lucky to avoid discovery until real archaeological science was able to handle him and his treasures. Fifty years ago his tomb would have been plundered; the gold and gems would have been highly dipenced and widely dispersed. A hundred years ago the best efforts of excavators at the time would have failed dismally, tradgicly indeed, to preserve the beautiful fragilities of many of hte exquisite articles, for the archaeologists had not yet learned how to measure, to photograph, to record, to interperate, and to preserve all at the same time. The world has not stopped marveling at the magnificent mass of tumbled household articles. They are stupified by their profusion of richness and artistry not only those first intruders upon three thousand years of Pharahonic privacy, but that still tongue-tied every visitor to the Cairo Museum. The sarcophagus of pink granite, the gilded beds, the walking sticks with carved handles of alternate ebony heads of Ethiops and ivory headsof Caucasionscaptives, the glut of gold and gems, made "King Tut" the resurrected " son of the sun " a household word. Inside the store chamber and facing the door, his paws barely protruding from a shawl over his jackal figure, crouched Anubis, the ever-vigilant god of the dead. Near by stood treasure chests full of personal jewelry from the Pharoahs use in the after-life beyond his tomb. His writing materials and palletes, his hunting chariots and decorated bow-cases for use in future hunts, the fully rigged barques in which the king would accompany the great sun god across the sky and back below the world through pitch-black caverns to the next day's starting point: these and scores, yes hundreds, of other objects appropriate to Pharoahonic burial lay scattered about in odd confussion. At the back of another chamber stood the gilded, carved shrine in which were four jars with the viscera of the dead Tut-Ankh-Amen were deposited. Before the beautifully decorated faces of the shrine stood like gardian angels, lovely statuettes of the tutelary goddesses Isis, Nephtys, Selkit, and Nuth. They face the shrine and stand with outstreached arms in upright loveliness. above the head of each is a row of fourteen gilded solar cobra heads. From the top of the canopy rise on each side 13 other large cobras, thje head of each surmounted by the present sun disk.