Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1923, Page 6

District Clergyma From Tomb of Rev. M. B. Lambdin Wonders at Treas- ures Unearthed. Questions Right to Disturb Sleep of 30 Centuries. Rev. Milton B. Lambdin of 3334] Park . place northwest has just n Returns Egyptian King reached Washington from Luxor, Egypt, where he visited Wing Tutank- hamen’s tomb, saw the distinguished men who made one of the greatest dlscoverles of the ages, and obtained much first-hand information regard- Ing what miny scientists consider to be the mos! remarkable funeral treas- ures unea‘thed in all history. “While, with hundreds of other tourists, { was not permitted to cross| the threshhold into the inper shrine, yet I saw Lord Carnavon and Howard Carter,” sald Rev. Mr. Lambdin, “and considered my visit well worth while. I reached there from u tour of the Holy Land. “T sometime question the right ot sclentists to loot even In the name of sclence these old Egyptian tombs and carry off the mummies to mu- seums, any more than the people of today, have the right to enter the tombs of Grant, Lincoln, Washington and Robert B. Lee. But a student of archeology for thirty years I cannot minimize the worth of what kias been discovered. Light on History. “The reason is this” continued the Baptist clergyman. “The history of any land is written to a_large de- gree in tgrms of culture. The history S e e B REV. MILTON B, LAMBDIN, has left much conjecture. finding of couches, chests, alabaster vases, ornate stools chairs and quanties of other riches of a royal household—even part of a chariot, W eopard draped acro: in the da it was u - king us he paraded hefore his subjects—give us a much fuller knowledge of art and the to centurics ago. st incidents in ascinating dis- ‘One connection with th veries 8 that Mr. Carter came with rix feet of digging into King Tut- ankhamen’s tomb on two different oc- a . Twice, he ve feeling that he was about to make some mar- velous discov and actually came the goal. He he was asked to change — —————————— [ ¢ K8 K 'RV A the eoe more Ik { PO the time for Theod millionaire sclentist, of R. L, and of course should carry out the request, Climax of Work. { “L can readily see why Mr. Carter |broke down and cried like @ ohild |when he actually = discovered the | #hrine and got a dim look at the ! mysteries by the light of & candl It was the climax of hard and di couraging work over a period thirty years. The sanctuary had cluded every eye until Carter came upon some especially white lime- stone debris and chips just below the surface indicating anclent workings Of some Kind in the immediate areu. King Tutankhamen's tomb closed and tightly sealed. There is & great fron gate shutting off the en- trance, and guards are always on the outsi When I was there the royal Egyptian sepulcher and everything sbout it was belng guarded more carefully than the treasures in some eat bank vault. Native soldlers with loaded rifiss were on patrol and only the Queer. «f Belgium, Lord Carnavon’s daughter, . o and Lady Allenby, Charles Breasted and Dr. James H. Breasted, Mayrard Owen Willlams, of the National 'Seographic Soclety and a few others were al- lowed to enter. Guarded From Robbers. “Tomb has to be guarded from or- ganized gangs of tomb-rohbers s well as from tourists, grave-robbing has always been common. (enera- tion after generation has witnessed | men eager to plunder the homes of the dead and carry off and sell any treasures they Goul? find. The an- cient Egyptians beideved in the im- mortality of the soul. They also be- lieved that the body must be pre- served to whlch the soul would re- turn long after death. For that reason they used such amazing care in the burial of their dead. And King Tutankhamen was sent on his wav with such an array of mortuary impliments as have never before been discovered. here are those who doubt if King Tutankhamen's mummy is really in the tomb, among them being several French sclentists. In 1907 some archeologlsts discovered a tomb in which they belleved the young Egyptian king was buried. They also had found the original of his wife. They found now pottery tomb. Their conclusions were that the tomb had been plundered, the mummies removed ¢o some other place and only a few comparatively e 4 ‘it that is all speculation’ The t of the present llw;orv wil and King Tutan! mummy are supposed to be t yet been entered. It is all myst . It will be a great dis- appointment to Egyptologists if the king's remains are not found. in the tomb discovered back in 1307, who was burfed there? “Ma of the natives are bitterly opposed to any Interruption to Tutankhamen's rest after he has been or more than sleeping so quietly wrong, they thirty centuries. I say. “Only in the American dollar did they show more interest while I was there. - “The American dollar is my 0d,’ a gulde sald to me, and I did not oubt the statement. “As T left the valiey of the Nile 1 wondered if the expression €0 com- mon during the world war, ‘Gone west,' did not orlginate centuries ago right in that locallty, with Luxor, Karnak, life and activity on the east bank, and th, the tombs of the anclent kings and the great Sahara desert on the left.” i o ER— EXERCISES PLANNED. Children to Graduate From French School Tuesday. Commencement exercises for the Misses Maret French School for Children will be held next Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in the Play- house, 1814 N street northwest. The exercises, which will consist of little French comedies and songs by the children, will be_followed by the “distribution des Prix,”” the popular name given to commencement exer- cises in France. The school {8 located at 1724 Con- necticut avenue. 18 ESCAPE FLAMES. 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