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[Article de presse du 17 mars 1925]

THE GIZA TOMB.

IS IT THAT OF KING SENEFRU ?

MAY BE GREATEST DISCOVERY YET MADE IN EGYPT.

The whole of the world of Egyptology 
has been set astir by the discovery of the 
tomb by the Pyramids at Giza. Is it the 
burial place of Senefru ? If so, the 
Boston-Harvard excavators will have 
made what must be regarded as perhaps 
te treatest archaeological discovery of 
the age. Senefru lived sixteen centuries 
before Tutanhamen, who, anyway was 
not a king of much importance. Senefru 
takes us far back into the Old Kingdom 
of ancient Egypt. He came at the end 
of the IIIrd dynasty, from which dates 
the beginning of Egyptian history as it 
was known before the recent discoveries.
One of the master builders fashioned 
two pyramids, one of them at Medum, 
and the other, probably in the perfected 
form, at Dahshur, both lying between 
Memphis and the Fayoum.

His dynasty is one of which we have 
so far very little knowledge. It is a 
matter of 5,000 years ago, and it is only 
from scrappy records that we have any 
knowledge of the mighty kings who then 
lived and died, who evolved the alphabet 
and the splendid arts, and were capable 
of engineering feats that remain the 
marvel of the age. If it is Senefrus's 
tomb which has now been found, and it 
is unplundered, much light may be expected 
to be thrown upon the darkness 
which to-day enshrouds this epoch of far 
distant history.

A great deal of work, much of it of 
an extremely delicate nature, has yet 
to be done at the newly-discovered tomb.
When the first official cmmuniqué on 
the subject was issued last week, no detailed 
examination had been possible. 
Only a plain rectangular coffin of alabaster 
had been rendered visible, together 
with a plank with an inlaid inscription 
in which the cartouche of Senefru 
was distinguished. The immediate 
theory was that the tomb contained either 
the mummy of his family or one of his 
high officilas. Speculation has so far 
rested at that point.

We believe it possible to-day, however, 
to set all that speculation at rest. 
What we learn on authority which can 
be regarded as entirely reliable is that 
the tomb is without doubt that of King 
Senefru.

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