SUNDAY
20th
FEBRUARY
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1938.
Repulse Bay Hotel First Pharaoh's Tomb
Announcing
TIFFIN CONCERT PROGRAMME
Played by Classical Sexieito-Leador Geo Plo-Diski
1. Undine--Ouverture, Lortzing.
Vaise-Fantasle. Glinka,
3. Moonlight Madonna. Fibich.
4. 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody, Lixxt.
5. Hymne au Bolelf, Korsakow-Kreisler.
(Violin Solo, P. Erdakoff),
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to
d. Frans Schubert Selection. Feiras.
2.30 p.m.
7. Spanish Dance No. 5. Monkowaki
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Believed Found
KING WHO RULED FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO
Duke May Ront Estate in U.S.A.
New York
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor may visit the United Blates early this year, despite their postponement last Novem- ber of the trip planned by Mr. Camciency
.E.
millionaire
A representative of the Duke, It is stated,
discussed the possibility that the Duke and Duchess may lease the 68-acres estate of
of Menlo Park, near San Francisco, one of California's "show places."
AN enormous tomb-believed to be that offers
Menes, the first King of the First Dynasty, has been discovered at North Sakkara by Mr. Walter Emery, telegraphed Reuter from Cairo.
The tomb contains a huge collection of pottery and stone vases bearing the royal seal of Menes, who hitherto was believed to have been buried at Abydos, in Upper Egypt.
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Menes' tomb has been mastabas (early tombs).
after Bought
by many Egyptologists. Sir Flinders Petrie, Emeritus Professor at University College, Lon-
covered it at Abydos.
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The walls of the subterra- nean rooms bear traces of the origin of wallpaper in the shape of mud plaster on which are stuck reed mats. Traces of colour sill remain In the mais.
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There have also been dis- covered a large variety of excel- cently preserved seals inscribed In the five subterranean tomb with black ink. These are a chambers hundreds of clay seal-most valuable addition to the inge bearing the name "Aha" written material of the First have been discovered. "Aha" is Dynasty, which was hitherto identified by Egyptologists with very limited. King Menes, who lived 5,000 PART OF WOODEN years ago.
Tho owner Is Mir. Leon Douglass, a wealthy inventor. According to his daughter, tho inquiries have been "informal" but exhaustive.
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A Paris report states that the Duke recently spoke of making reservation in the.. Washington or the Manhattan early in the year.
are fragments of furniture, in-: cluding the traditional ivery bulls' legs and parts of a wooden bed similar in design to that of the famous Fourth Dynasty bed of Queen Hoto- pheres.
This tomb is bigger than that discovered by Sir Flinders Petrio at Abydos.
King Menes was worshipped by subsequent Pharaohs and by the Greeks as a god.
Sakkara is in the Nile Valley,
BED FOUND Mr. Emery, however, is not
also willing to commit himself until
There was
a fine and ho has further proof, which extensive collection of vases of will probably be forthcoming entirely new shapes and ex-40 miles south of Cairo. It is when he uncovers the intact quisite workmanship, as well as the site of a number of ancient subsidiary graves of the ser- beautiful pottery, on which are Pyramids, and tombs, including vants. likely to be situated depicted hunting scenes, show-the Step Pyramid of King Zeser round the central tomb.
ing gazelles, lions and other of the Third Dynasty, which hitherto has been regarded as These graves are at present animals. covered by small Third Dynasty As well as palettes there the oldest in Egypt.
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