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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY****14* · 1936.
TOMB HAD SECRET CHAMBERS
Young Briton
Finds Treasure
Experts Missed
Cairo, Apr. 30.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS always passed the tomb at Sak-
karah, rear Cairo, in which Mr. W B. Emery, thirty- year-old Englishman, has just made one of the greatest discoveries of the century.
Those archaeologists, experi-objects meant for the use of the enced though they were, thought dead in his second life." that its walls were solid.
They were not,
Perfectly-Made Ropo
The frat collection of thong Behind them were secret"objects" reached Cairo Museum
2,000 Years Before Tutankhaman ·
In point of historicat›Interest, Mr. Emery'n discoveries will rank with those made in Tutankha- men's tomb at Luxor, since they relate to a period two thousand years earlier that is, Ave thou sand years ago.
Most of the finds in the Sakka- rab tomb give evidence bearing on the superstitions and mode of life of that era.
Luxor contributed mainly works of art like Tulankhamen's coffin. portraits, statuettes, vases, and objects icks like walling sticks, beds, clairs, and linen chiesta.
chambera, forty-two all told.' this morning. There, one found World's
And in theso chambers were Egyptologists excitedly examining historic treasures beyond price. them. They saw, among other
When the tomb was "diacover-things:
ed" five years ago it had the A quiver filled with bone and appearance of having already been thoroughly searched,
The excavators reckoned with- out the hidden mysteries behind the walls.
Mr. Emery, tall, bespectacled, Liverpool-born, said to-day:
"They made the same mistake as the people who visited the tomb before them-probably thousanda of years before.
They thought the brick super- structure was solid, I re-examined it. To my astonishment, I found
It hollow,
"Further investigation rovenled the forty-two chambers, filled with
£100,000
Oldest
ivory-tipped arrows; an ivory: Book Is In
hended spear wooden sickles with dint teeth which were en-
tirely unknown until today.
Jare, sealed with mud, bearing the the name King Dens, which once contained food and wine. Only a heap of dust and a few barries remain.
France
and artistle
Paris, May 5, The world's oldest "book" is possessed by the French National Library.
It is not a book in the proper Enormous flint knives of artistic
workmanship, which it was sense of the word but it served thought belonged to a much that purpose in another and when Inter period.
bound the present form of volume was unknown. It is an Egyptian papyrus dating back 2,800 years.
Lengths of rope, so perfectly made and so well preserved that one would think they were produced yesterday. Inlaid wooden boxes and small Written at length on the scroll is pieces of wood. apparently not a philosophical treatise, nor meant for some game such as scientille study of the period. After savants had pored on it for many chess or draughts.
long hours, for the translation was
Worth of Beer Dises made of stone, bronze, wood, most dificult, they found written
Given Away
FRE
REE beer to the value of over £100,000 is given away in London every year.
Everyone working in a brewery is 'entitled, by age-old custom, to two pints daily-one in the morning, an other in the afternoon,
Workers from outside firms, in the brewery at these hours, niso draw their pints, and those who are working overtime qualify for an evening drink as well.
The free beer bill for London's breweries alone runs to a figure well exceeding £2,000 a week. One firm has 1,600 regular workers All entitled to a shilling's worth of beer
and Ivory, three to six inches in simply a
A judicious council on how to diameter, and all well finished. live wisely, preaching, simplicity in and drink, moderation in food hunting ene in living One bears a
the education of children, inlaid stone.
Despite its age, the papyrus The experts are unable to say relatively well preserved, for many in what purpose these dises served.
the hands of collectors front Inter Mr. Emery said: "Some of periods better show the wear of time. the articles are very fragile. When It is only 23 feet, 2 inches long which an assistant gently blew the sand hardly compares in length with the off the top of a box in the tomb famous Harris Papyrus, discovered in he blew half the box away well."
ля
the
tomb of Rameses III. which measures 12 feet, 10 inches,
A facsimile of the papyrus was
Two small bone inbels are in-published in 1817 with the following scribed with the name of the
appellation: "Facsimile of an Egyp occupant of the tomb-Hemeka, tinn Papyrus in Grand Vizler to King Dens of ters found at the First Dynasty.
and given to In Paris by
FOUND BY ACCIDENT
tho National Phic charac-
Little is known of this period. Emile Prisse d'Avesnes. Egyptologiats expect Mr. Emery's
Priss discovery to clear up many my gist and
a day. Their hospitality costs justteries of the customs of man in for who was famed
under £100 a week.
French archacolo.
about the middle of this There are quite a number of workers those far-off days-five hundred the 18th century, came upon
were valuable
One document rather by accident. who do not take their heer-they are years before the Pyramids
built.
while searching a Theban teetotallers.
Necropolis at Drah-Abou-Negga, he was approached by a workman with the seroll and asked if he wished to purchase it. As it souned quite authentic, the French archaeologist bought it, but little realizing its true Marl-value.
After
QUEEN MARY TO LIVE IN
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE FROM SEPTEMBER QUEEN MARY will not leave Buckingham Palace for
borough House until September.
The members of the Marlborough Club, who have enjoyed the courtesy of using the forecourt of Marlborough House for car-parking, have received notice that, as from May 14, they must make other arrangements.
It will take several months to arrange for the removal of Queen Mary's personal effects from Buckingham Palace to Mariborough House.
Her decision to live in future at Marlborough House will revive memories of the days when the late King Edward VII, lived there as Prince of Wales.
Centenary
Of Composer
Of French Anthem
Paris, May G.
The "Marseillaise", French nu- tional anthem, will be played at the same hour all over France. in every village, town and city, June 26. to commemorate the centenary of the death of its composer, Claude Joseph Rouget. de l'Isle..
The young author composed the one night in revolutionary hymn Strasbourg In 1702 when, as a young engineering officer he was dining at the house of his friend, Mayor Dietrich. Suddenly in the middle of the dinner he rose and in a wave of patriotism composed a son for the revolutionary armies. The song was so moving that it is said that every- one in the room burst into tears.
came
2
thorough investigation, Prisse d'Avesne was able to establish' that the papyrus had been stolen from a tomb of one of the Antefs of the
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1 An almost preternatural power
though stepping apparently,
9 To the artist's model this would
not meas.restel.
Scol 10 Name that suggests
telling another what the card game is,
11 Pine.
11th Theban dynasty, a tomb which 12 A protective part of ke himself some time before had un-
earthed and brought to light,
12
man-of-war.
4 Wine.
21
minny
13
At present it is divided into
10 You know the insect, 'tis after with the length of each de- this. why the logical division of the 18 Agile. texts. Those of the texts, which are 20 A cleric.
nt sca. Toy.
"Seems in" (anag),
8 Unimportance in meaning, ap-"
parently
13 inert.
15
A raid that sounds lengthy,
17 Commonplace.
10
Tree
of
a definito time.
20 An upset toy is useful in the
feltehen.
23 This molluse may be an oyster. 26 River of S. ABIL
26 Public School.
27 A light-headed Frenchman,
31 Quadrupe known on the stock
Exchange.
intact, are divided into two sections: 1 Town near the mouth of 25 town. 32. Air. the Kaquenin and L Ptakhotep 22 Tunnel. separated | by
customs a space of 4 feet, 9 inches | 24 A list of a nation's without characters undoubtedly effaced perhaps. by scraping. The number of lines of 20 Fruit." each section is unequal,
tween 11 and 14. The lening be- ug Were I in this part of the church
of the It would be simple. lines varies between eight inches and 29 Made to be down-trodden, two feet.
30 Wherein women worked in the
war.
After the scientist hrought it to Paris, a number of savants, headed by 33 Outstanding.
I
the leading egyptologist of the period, 34 A hanging that is always short Francois-Josephi Chabas spent many at first. hours studying the complientelan Deputy. nieroglyphics before unravelling its
simple mesange.
HOURS TO UNRAVEL
The writing was done with the greatest of skill. The lines are firm and clear without any overlapping or overtracing. The scribe, using Д kash, a reed cut off one end at un
used the angle
Ench utmost care. time he dipped the kash into the ink and continued where he had left of it so well that the Joining at the characters is hardly perceptible. The serbe did his job as carefully as a sculptor of the period carved the hieroglyphics into the hard stone.
he did it
It is interesting to note that the Shortly afterwards Rouget de l'isie, disgusted with the revolutionists, be Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who has oldest book" is a simple manual on a royalist. He was then im been named as successor of Mr. Bald- how to live, how to cat wisely, how. prisoned in Paris but later released win in the event of a reconstruction to care for children, subjects that are
acen of Robespierre. of the government, is
photo just na timely to-day and which fill upon the death
pre-papers, magazines and other publica-
21. tions.-United Prosa.
In spite of his change in politics the graphed during a visit in Scotland thousands of pages daily of our news kong he composed became the nation- which he undertook
April senting is budget on al anthem of the new Republic.
SALESMAN SAM
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