Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1923, Page 5

" Says Other Tombs Held Rubbish . Compared With Tutankhamen’s o with b 4 % wooden figure of a swan with a yellow | Inscriptions in ink for facilitating the | Belgian Professor Declares . Splendor at Luxor Astounds’ Experts in Egyptology (Loudon Times-New York Times cops! ht. By ' riosity of archeologists. To hear them arrangement with the Barl of Oarnarven.) lone ought immediately to restore theé B5 Cable to The Star. o _1e | Protsctive walls bebing which he has > 'pt, February 20.—It|esc o seekers for treasure. LUXOR, Egypt. Tebr e o the|, ] readily admit that if this tomb was another gorgeou brought nothing not hitherto known tomb of Tutankhamen )’fllbrdly& but | to 1‘he "Vol‘hld“d ‘would btl useless to E y he thrills and tu- | €xplore it an levote a minute study By o e N was devoted to | 1o Its contents, but it has been said allowing representatives of the press that the advantage which man. has over the brute is his faculty of re- and other visitors to go into the tombd. None, however, was permitted to taining a memory of his past. Taday, however, the splendor of a past at Ppenetrate the new opening, as it was considerable - trenidation that first completely lost and then resu: citated in uncertain manner appe: again before our daszled eyes, Lord Carmarvon and Howard Carter| “Something more than the groans of allowed so many persons, not all of gary to convince me that the Egyp- the sitmmest, to push through the | tologists are violating the secret of - s o 4 eath in a sacrilegious manner. Nu. narrow passage between the walls of | death In o sacrilegious manner Mu Sunday. Two or three of the least |which the dead displayed that poste Slender did stick and needed help. !ity should cause their name to live. Fortunately, the tabernacle 1s admir- | It was said that he lives whose namé bly 1t of wood. estimated at about | is proclaimed. A few weeks ago “arpenters knew their basiness, axnot | forgotten outside of a small circle of every similar structure built today !speclalists; today he is * known uid last three thousand years and |throughout the world. nd much pushing. H No Name féor Barbarians. neurasthenics and lunatics 18 nece the chamber and the outer tabernacle | Egypt give cvidence of. the anxiety 2n irch thick, and the old Egyptian | Tutankhamen's name was completely View From Outer Chamber, | “In their stelae Egyptians used to These Three Were First to Enter Tomb of Kin, Tutankhamen Ater 3,400 Years To avold the risk of catastrophe, | make an appeal to those who were| therefore, visitors had to content|able to read them, inviting them to themselves with a view of what they | recite the formulae, assuring to the could see from the outer chamber |dead all welfare in the other world. through the hole. Even this, how- | For long no one had read the form- ever, should have been valuable to!ulae drawn up for the kings of the some correspondents, because the ex-'| elghteenth dynasty. After centuries traordinary stories sent out from un- | suthorized sources and tclegraphed | tant parts for which hack here have caused immense hi- | geoxraphy had no names, and they lerity at Luxor. ‘Wonderful things | have just read the prayers, which, ac- seem to have been found of which the | cording to the bellef of the ancients, authorities know nothing, and those |are capable of giving to the disin- Sho have been reading some news- | carnated spirits of the dead a real pers must have curfous ideas of |and truly happy life at really happened. A few articles, Lowever, have been |Dring reassurance to sensible minds brought out of the inner room and are ('l Tegard to the feelings with which row lying open te inzpection in the outer ! Titankhamen sees u= enter his tomb. chamber on trays ready for removal to | shall not describe the first cham- the laboratory. They were brought out ber where two great statues seem to because they were in positions where |De protecting the closed wall, which they might be trodden on or otherwise | Still bore the royal seals. Today the damaged {;f',[ has fallen, and there only re- . s ilns a vestige on the left side. The Slahas(er vase Nemovet: whole of the open space Is to a great One of these is one of tie alabuster [extent blocked by an immense obe wases aircady menticued as being per- stacle which sparkles. At first sight | liaps of fincr workmanship even than jone sees nothing but gold and the | any of the lovely pieces tound in the | wonderful Egyptian blus. which har outer chambs }l ts more than two fe'n monizes so well with gold. It is the Ligh on a finely cerved pedestal, the |royal e V] = = O D SIE AT ol e ot Al | s e NI WRICH THills (el hole with handles rep. Und 5 g the papyrus and lotus, respec- | lerstands Texts More Clearly. ely, of upper and lower Egspl. Each{ “I now understand more ciearly iandle bears the cartouche of King [than ever why in the Egyptian texts| Tutankhamen in black and the symbol | the chamber which inclosed the sar- “HEH,” meaning “everlasting lite.' :coDhagus was called the chamber of Another is a snaller wide-mouthed |Eold. There are, it s sald, four can- vase of tae shape of & lotus b'ossom on | ODies, one within the other, in center & long stem, with the wings or handles |of which lles without any doubt the | charmingly carved with representations | royal murimy inclosed in its sarco- of half-opened lotus buds, with lotus | Phagus. leaves branching below, all very delicate | “One asks one's self by what su- and attractive. preme effort was it possible to erect With these these gigantic panels, on which are ! the pharaonic is a black bituminized assembly of ti ese parts. Between the wulls, on which one can dlscern the signifi- | Paintings of a somewhat rough na- ture, and the catafalque there is| bill, which was Iying on the ground in the outer passage near the door of the urst tabernacle. Though cance of the swan is uncertain, some be- lieve it was supposed to render service jSbace lthugh which even persons of 1o the deceased by accompansing or | moderate girths find it difficult to plioting him across the waters in the ,DI&.}: egion of the dead. A similar swan was | “At last 1 find myself before the ound by de Morgan some years ago, |closed doors bearing still their old and is at the Cairo museum. bolts. They were ajar when Mr. Car. : er entered and behind them, he saw MelgianiRucounis Disceyery. {other doors still sealed. A tkew steps I sent Sunday a short expression of |led me to the end of the chamber opinfon from the Queen of the Bel-|Where between the wall and the In a ce upon her is|catalfalque were placed oars, per- barians have come from far dis- | “Here then, perhaps, s something to | (London Times-New York Times, copyright, by arrangement with Earl of Carnarvon.) Left to right—Lord Carnarvon, who financed the enormous undertaking of locating and excavating the burial place of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh; Lady Evelyn Herbert, his daughter, and Howard Carte: who directed the expedition from the start, inding the tom above at the entrance of the tomb. The steps to Mr. Carter's left lead down into the burial cavern. Egyptolog! which I am quite incapable of de- scribing, another chariot, several model boats copled from the royal floet and many other articles which the excavators will bring out one after another. All are destined to astound us and to make us realize only too readily that we, the latest born of clvilization, are not entitied to look back on the past ages with the contempt of upstarts for their more simple and modest ancestors. In the tomb of Tutankhamen we real- ize better than anywhere else that all must be begun over again, that the forces of decadence often operate as strongly as the forces of progress, and that in a period where our civil- ization Is tottering all our respect is due to those giants who had attained highest pinnacles and retained it for so long.” Gives Museum $27,00. Among the visitors from a distance who were admitted to the inner cham- ber today was Mr. Macy (probably V. Everit Macy) of New York. Today happened to be the twenty-seventh anniversary of his wedding, and he was so impressed with what he saw that he immediately sent by telegraph a gift of $27,000 to the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Another Vis- itor Is sald to have made a gift to the Cairo Museum. These donations are excellent_und show the inspiring in- fluence of these discoveries. 1 wrote yesterday of the wantonly malicious campaign proceeding from to spread the insignificant incidentals in a scene 8o impressive. When we entered yester- day morning Mr. Carter's chief as- sistant, who was acting as guide, said, as we turned to the right after enter- ing the antechamber: “There you are!” He had a sense of the dra- | matic. and as he threw his hands in the direction of the opening in the sealed doorway he stood back to en- Jjoy the big scene of the play. Picture of Mortuary Chamber. Take a room about twelve feet] wide and thirty feet long, with a] door leading to another room. Imag- | ine that door about six feet high and | four wide. Visualise, instead of your| | luxury and refinement, bare pink-| toned walls of rock. Look through that door Into another room und see | in_your mind's eye the white light of strong electric lamps falling onto a huge magnified coffin. Imagine that | coffin twenty feet long, fifteen feet { wide and ten feet high, curving at | the top to come down to meet the sides like an old-fashioned trunk on | @ magnified scale t | Cover this coffin with a thick layer | of gold, with a long winding serpent | inlald on the top, where it slopes | | i | | . up to the present time, They are shown vEROM THE AVENUE Z NiNTE of the room into which you are look- ing & hole four feet square opening into an annex filled with treasures, such as statuary and boxes of all sizes and shapes, some richly embossed | with gold, ‘some ebony inlald with ivory, ‘some decorated with hunting scen by artists who are unequaled in that particular style of art, chariots and boats, vaaes, urne and pots, mum :';l.l::du e.cohdl dnd numerous other , nd eve fhings, o ry one a treasure Series of Cofinas. Now Imagine within a great gilded canopy another, and within a & third, and within & third and within a fourth d with- ! in the fifth a granit. and ! within the granite sarcophagus a se- | ries of coffins containing endless swathes and bandages enwrapping all that remains of Tutankhamen him- Imagine also between each of these canoples heaps of jewels, gems, ala- baster vases, amulets and scarabs. Imagine in the annex four canoplc| Jars contalning the entralls of the king, and then remember that you are ! in the presence of the man who once! ruled this region and il around it. Turn your face away for & moment while "your mind reels—and as you turn look up and you will see one of the two life-size ‘statues of Tutan- khamen, which for centuries have been | guarding the sesled doorway of thel eath room. This statue will gaze at | you unblinkingly. It {s & beautiful face and a beautiful look, and you will look into it as I did yesterday morning and go away pondering on e. Mr. Carter told me that he hopes to close the tomb this week until next fall, but the work will continue in the workshop of preserving the treasures already taken from the antechamber. It will be at least two years before this tomb 1s cleared. But it will be a thousand pities if it is ever complete- ly cleared, as the place for these things is where they have been found. | BLOCKS AUTO THEFT. Man Displays Pistol When Own- | er Appears—Two Stolen. Lawrence V. Lampson, No. 6 Crescent |Place, prevented the theft of his auto- moblile early last night, when he stepped onto the street from the Southern bullding in time to see a colored man about to take possession of his car. The man displayed a plstol when th owner appeared, the police were told, and then made his escape. An automoblle belonging to Rev. Enoch M. Thompson, pastor of the Chapel of the Nativity, 14th and A streets southeast, disappeared from in front of the institution last night. It was recovered later In he night. Police were told of the theft of an automobile belonging to 8. B. Bachrach, druggist at 5th and I streets, last night, from in front of 612 1 street. the American gently to meet the side, Imagine this serpent with wings which spread out to protect and enfold the cartouche of King Tutankhamen, “the divine king gone to Osiris,” and underneath the serpent a long line of hiero- glyphics telling the world that Tut- ankhamen was a divine king, lord of | the two lands of Upper and Lower Egypt and beloved son of Ra. Lustrous Gold to Cover. _you have still got about eight feet of lustrous gold to cover. Imag- ine five long, purallel lines running along the whole side of this golden canopy and in each line alternate figures of the key of life and the em- blem of Isis worked in that fasci- nating bluish-green hue in porcelain. Now imagine a mortuary chamber only a few sinches bigger than the canopy, only a few inches to spare between the glamour of gold and the color on the walls portraying the | funerary processions, with a baboon or two in one corner and hieroglyph- ics beseeching the gods of the un- derworld to hearken and lead Tut- ankhamen quickly and safely to the Elysian Flelds. Imagine in the far right-hand corner HONOR PAID COPERNICUS. The 450th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus wes observed yester- day afternoon in the auditorium of the National Museum, under auspice: of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr C Q. Abbot, assistant secretary of the institution, addressed the meet- ing_on the Iife and astronomical theory of Copernicus, who was the firat ~sstronomer to' establish the helfocentric theory of the solar sys- tem—that the sun stands atill and the planets, includiog among_them our earth, revolve around it. 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Long-Time Credit Cheerfully Extended Never mind about the ready cash. filed through Attorney S the distin- chance those that propelled the barge } London which seeks Who Is &lon which the royal remains had |idea that friction exists between Lord | & of ‘the Academy Royal dejcrossed the river. Carnarvon and the Egyptian €overr | Belgique, conservalor and secretary Told to Tura A: : ment. 1 have had occaslon to speak | of the Musee's Rovaux du Clinguan-|{ «s¢ ¢his moment my :n::“m— Mace | {2 Abel Hemig Sulleman Pasha, un- | tenaire at Brussels and a Drofessor o (he Metropolitan Maseum of New | acrsecretary Y | J ‘aparets Belgian scientt For Spring 1923 works, on the subject. He replied, ' . at Liege University. He wrote the following statement: . “1 have just returned from Biban York, tells me to turn around. I could not refrain from a cry of surprise, and even now I fell choked with the Ilmeluk (the tomb of the kings). My thoukhts are 8o disturbed that T have | amosn St moror thile, fight of dificulty in collecting them, and in|eses °5 (Dot moment 1y Defore mui expressing my feelfugs I should like |the rock gives access to a moderately ! first of ull to testify to the immensity |gized chamber which was filled with of the debt which the civilized nations {ohjects which were placed there nigh must owe to Lord Carnarvon andion thirty-five centuries ago. No one Howard Carter, whose names will |has entered there. No plunderer has remain indissolubly linked with the ‘gnatched any booty or has displaced a greatest archeological discovery |single articie. ¥lithin the memory of humanity. T| “Jt is one of those moments In| wish only that every one could re-|which one tries to take in everything alize what self-sacrificc and gene-|at a glance, as If one were about to' rosity have been needed for the un-idie and the present were the last dertaking and the carrying out of iminute one might have to live. I saw the systematic work ‘of ~clearing|so much; yet, now that 1 have come | which ‘alone has realized the miracic iout of the tomb, it seems to me that I of finding again intact a royal tomb|have seen nothing and that whole with some bitterness: “The statement is too ridiculous to need contradiction. 1 and my depart- ment are delighted with the manner in which this work is carried out and the cordiality of the relations which Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Carter and the rest of the staff are maintaining with us and with M. Lacau and his department.” CANOPY IS DAMAGED. By Cable to The Star. LUXOR, Egypt, February . 20.— Some one whether the discoverers or the Egyptian government, made too much of a good thing of it Sunday by following all and sundry—except the so well protected that none of the!hours 1uhbers reached thirty thoe hunt for treasure has not been interrupted for a single day. Cu- | will be necessary to under- ] it in spite of the!stand all that held my gaze during four centuries during whlchllho few seconds. actically all that we had up to now in the way of Egyptlan indus- men’s mortuary chapel and to verge ion the fourth chamebr adjacent to the mausoleum. When the tomb was open- ed yesterday morning and surveyed after the excitement of Sunday's of- vidity and lgnorance have united to!trinl art was only trumpery and rub- | ficial opening it was found that the prevent posterity from having any {bish suitable to satisfy the vanity of | real knowledge of the glory of the Pharaohonic civiltzation.” Found Key Century Ago. “It is now a century since Cham- pollin discovered the key which was | people who wanted their tomb to S'\ve the appearance of royal splen- or. jdor. Chest of Elegant Design. “In the center is a square chest of i0 render possible the opening up of [most elegant design which is guard- the treasure, and since then Egyptol- ogists have studied snd later im- vroved the manner of utilizing it. But there was always the fear that 1he treasure might already have been removed. Lord Carnarvon and Mr. 1‘.'ar(elr have just opened it, and It is act. “What is one to say of the hateful ed, or better still, protected, by four exquisite figures of goddesses with arms outstretched in a charming at- titude. It is probable that this is the chest containing the viscera of the king. We shall know better later, when it has been possible to break the seals, which are still intact, what the chests and little tabernacles there and dishonest attacks of which these are which are probably full of sur- two men are the object at the present moment. In order to be able to convey can be solved only slowly. The duties ‘apid and accurate information to thie |0f the excavators in the matter of world about their immense discovery relfeved themselves of the task of drawing up the communiques ty ntrusting this work to the greatest newspaper in the world. That was their crime. It i3 much to be regret- ted that those who write of this cam- paign neglect to tell what are the motives which prompt them to accuse TLord Carnarvon of converting his un- Torgettable discovery into a commer- cfal undertaking, as they have ven- tured to describe it. “These _attacks are some of them are simply ludicrous, Wanted Names to Live. “Some people are seized with pity fate of poor King for the hapless Tutankhamen, who finds himself dis: turbed in his earthly rest by the cu urbed I ey e ove Barber Bills Shop No other place like it inWashington Bl Bign'®, THE ANt ATHin T * NATIONALY KRR abominable; the preservation of the objects must be subjected to a great strain for in time know all that the tomb con- tains, but the knowledge thus ob- tained must necessarily be vouth- safed to us as if measured drop by drop. 1 huve seen caskets of a beauty For this week only, every 3-piece Suite of prises for us. This is a mystery which | months, perhaps for years. We shall | passage of a number of exceedingly | stout men through the narrow space between the side of the outer gold- covered canopy and the solid rock wall had been bad for the canopy, which is in & most frail condition after its 3,400' years undisturbed vigil. The Egyptian government's repre- rentatives emitted several exclama- tions of horror and pulled its collec- | tive beard—most officlals of the an- tiquities department here are French- men who affect beards—and there- upon decided no further risk would be taken of damaging the beautiful canopy. Sees Big Outer Canopy. So when the New York Times' and i The Star's representative, in company i with other pressmen, stepped into the | antechamber yesterday morning the Ifirst thing he saw was this wonder- ful outer canopy and the second thing was a strong barrier in front of it. 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