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THE GIZA TOMB.
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IS IT THAT OF KING SENEFRU ?
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MAY BE GREATEST DISCOVERY YET MADE IN EGYPT.
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The whole of the world of Egyptology
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has been set astir by the discovery of the
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tomb by the Pyramids at Giza. Is it the
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burial place of Senefru ? If so, the
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Boston-Harvard excavators will have
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made what must be regarded as perhaps
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te treatest archaeological discovery of
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the age. Senefru lived sixteen centuries
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before Tutanhamen, who, anyway was
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not a king of much importance. Senefru
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takes us far back into the Old Kingdom
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of ancient Egypt. He came at the end
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of the IIIrd dynasty, from which dates
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the beginning of Egyptian history as it
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was known before the recent discoveries.
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One of the master builders fashioned
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two pyramids, one of them at Medum,
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and the other, probably in the perfected
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form, at Dahshur, both lying between
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Memphis and the Fayoum.
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His dynasty is one of which we have
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so far very little knowledge. It is a
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matter of 5,000 years ago, and it is only
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from scrappy records that we have any
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knowledge of the mighty kings who then
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lived and died, who evolved the alphabet
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and the splendid arts, and were capable
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of engineering feats that remain the
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marvel of the age. If it is Senefrus's
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tomb which has now been found, and it
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is unplundered, much light may be expected
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to be thrown upon the darkness
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which to-day enshrouds this epoch of far
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distant history.
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A great deal of work, much of it of
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an extremely delicate nature, has yet
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to be done at the newly-discovered tomb.
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When the first official cmmuniqué on
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the subject was issued last week, no detailed
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examination had been possible.
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Only a plain rectangular coffin of alabaster
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had been rendered visible, together
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with a plank with an inlaid inscription
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in which the cartouche of Senefru
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was distinguished. The immediate
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theory was that the tomb contained either
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the mummy of his family or one of his
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high officilas. Speculation has so far
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rested at that point.
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We believe it possible to-day, however,
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to set all that speculation at rest.
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What we learn on authority which can
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be regarded as entirely reliable is that
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the tomb is without doubt that of King
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Senefru.