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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1923)
Tutankhamen Lives Again! By Prof. T. S. Dunn The magic spell of Egypt has onc( again been cast over the world. We ari momently awaiting the thrill that wil attend the opening of that sealed rocl chamber where presumably lies Pharaol Tutankhamen. When the funeral cor tege passed out of Thebes and across th< Nile, bearing the dead Pharaoh to his catacomb, how strange a fantasy it woule have seemed to any one in that processioi that a company of archaeologists, 300C years later, would stumble upon the hid den crypt and reintroduce0 the mummier monarch to an astonished world. Am. could anything now be more wierd that to await the coming forth from his tomh of an autocrat who wore the double crown of Kgypt far back in the 1300’s before Christ. A remarkable fate has befallen a rel atively unimportant Pharaoh, in that the discovery of his tomb early in last No vember and the opening of the ante chamber, some three weeks later, disclos ing almost complete funereal parapher nalia to the probable vale of half a hun dred million dollars, rank among the most astounding revelations in the an nals of archaeology. Tutankhamen him self, though far excelled in fame by the the Pyramid Builders and such heroic personalities as Sesostris, Thutmose, Amenhotep, or Baineses, has survived 3000 posthumous years, suddenly to be come an international figure. Tutankhamen the Illegitimate In his own day and in his own place in the accepted chronology as a king of the 18th dynasty, Tutankhamen can not be credited with having been a conspic uous success. History knows him as the illigitimate son of Amcnhotep the Mag nificent, and as successor, after a short interval, of the heretic and mystic Akhe naton, whose son-in-law ho was. His short reign of eight years was a troublous era of vacillation and decadence. Feeling under the domination of the priesthood, he was induced to restore the old worship which Akhonaton had striven so glorious ly to refine and reform; and incidentally removed the capital back to Thebas. By far the most interesfflng item connected with his name and reign is the suggestion recently advanced by Arthur Wdigall that Tutankhamen and not Ramoses II is the real Pharaoh of the Oppression who taught the children of Israel to make brick without straw. Numerous monuments bear witness to his name, for instance a lion of red gran ite now in the British museum which shows the cartouche and royal signature of Tutankhamen; a letter on clay and in cuneiform addressed to him while still a courtier, and discovered at Tell-el Amarnn. Then there are the frescoed walls of the tomb of his Ethiopian vice roy, Huy, which depict Tutankhamen on his throne and receiving both his gover nor’s report and embassies of tributary peoples. And the marvelous ruins of Luxor are the more superb by reason of Tutankhamen’s great colonnade on which are sculptured the scenes of his trium phant reception in Thebes, the most pre tentious structure erected by any Phar aoh up to that time. Modems May Face Antiquity The prnctiee of burial in pyramids had long since been abandoned by the Phar aohs and now the desolate chalk cliff walls on the west of the Nile had been preempted by the royal line and honey combed with tombs in maze-like cham bers excavated in the rock. And here it was that Tutankhamen eventually came to join his fathers. Remarkably good fortune has attended the search for these tombs in the Valley of Kings and tour ists today may look upon the mummies of some of the most famous of the Phar aohs now lying in state in the museum at Gizeli. Hut the custom of concealing with the body of the deceased monarch his crown jewels and royal regalia and costly fur niture, developed in ancient Egypt- the abhorrent crime of grave robbery. Des pite the fact that the rock tombs were sealed and covered under debris to es cape detection and despite the compul sion by law of regular tomb inspection by priestly officials, scarcely one crypt has been discovered to be intact. Us ually the chamber shows evidence of hav ing been denuded ages ago of its preci ous furnishings and too often the mummy of the Pharaoh himself to have suffered ungracious handling in the effort to wrench away the jewels clinging to his person and wrappings. .So, when Howard f arter, the American archaeologist left in charge of the re cent explorations, after sixteen years of patient search, came upon the sealed en trance of Tutankhamen’s crypt in a spot so concealed that Raineses VI, a 1 ’har n"h ruling a century and a quarter later, I1 • ustruetod his own tomb just above the gotten tomb of his now ancient pi cii, ei ssor,— great hopes were immedi ately aroused that here was an untouched cache. It proved in great part true. Af CLASSIFIED ADS Minimum charge, 1 tune. 26c; 2 time*. 46c; 6 tunes. $1. Must be limited to 6 line*, over this limit, 6c per line. Phone tfol. or leave copy with Business office of Emeralp. in University Press. Payment in advance. Office hours. 1 to 4 p. m. 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Far and away above the gold and precious stones and metals included, it is absolutely inesti mable as involving comtemporary wit nesses of the life and times of royal Egypt, 3000 years ago. To know that Pharaoh Tutankhamen sat in state on that throne of gilt and ivory and precious stones, the first ever discovered; that he reclined at meals or in sleep on one of those three couches, covered with beaten gold and with head posts curiously carved in the animal heads °f Egyptian deities; that he rode or stood in one of those four chariots of beaten gold and inlaid stone, whose wheels were piled in a heap on the floor and their poles leaning against the wall, thus taken apart to get them through the tomb en trance; that he may have held in his own hand that candle in its gold socket, the first evidence that has come down for us of the use of candles thus early in Egyptian history,—held it by that handle carved in the peculiar device called the “ankh”; that he drank or used perfume or oil from one of those four most ex quisite alabaster vases ever yet found; or that his soul in Osiris was expected to eat from those chests full of mumified mutton and other wild game,—all this is tremendously fascinating beyond any evaluation in terms of pounds sterling. Glories Yet to Come But the real climax of this thrilling tale of discovery is yet unrevealed. Two portrait statues in life size of Tutank hamen is bituminized wood, carrying gilt stick and mace, with the crown of Egypt on his brow and solid gold sandals on his feet, stand guarding a sealed door,— and within that other chamber still to be opened, there is every reason to believe, the dead Pharaoh himself lies. All this tantalizing interim has been consumed in boxing and caring for the precious con tents of the first chamber, and Lord Carnarvon, again returning from Eng land, has meanwhile kept the world gasp ing with unconcealed excitement. To morrow, it may be,—perhaps even as I am speaking, the barriers will have been wrenched away and Tutankhamen having a “coming forth'into the light” unlooked for by him and unheralded in the Book of the Dead. The exclamation that may have greeted him in the corners of his own palace at Thebes comes almost involuntarily to our own lips, as if to claim a semi-fulfill ment. “O Pharaoh Tutankhamen, Beloved of Ra, Live forever!” ONE DAY ONLY—MONDAY HAROLD LLOYD in the comedy that made him famous “A Sailor Made Man” Even funnier than “Grandma’s Boy” and “Dr. Jack” See Lloyd as a gob—He’ll make you roar louder than the ocean. He’ll rock your sides until you cry for joy. With other Ileilig features selected for your pleasure Usual prices—10c, 20c, 30c FREQUENT DRY CLEANING Is essential for sanitation if not for the sake of appear ance. Many clean - looking gar ments are so dirty the owner would be horrified if he could see the muck that sifts out of them in the cleaning process. Dark garments are not “hon est” about the dirt. When we clean a garment it’s C L E A N. CITY CLEANERS W. E. 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