Electric Lights In Tombs

ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN TOMBS

Recent Discoveries In Egypt Illuminated by Modern Inventions.

Recent discoveries at Thebes, in Egypt, have enormously enhanced the interest of the remains of that ancient city, says a London cable dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean.

Mr. Howard Carter, inspector of antiquities at Luxor, has within the last few weeks installed the electric light in a number of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, It is now possible to thoroughly view those magnificently decorated mausoleums, previously only dimly seen by the light of a guttering candle or the transient flash of magnesium wire.

One tomb, and only one, has ever been discovered with the mummy of the royal occupant still in place, and with commendable good taste the body has been left undisturbed where it was placed over 3,000 years ago. This is the mummy of King Amenosis II., whose tomb was opened by M. Loiret only three years ago. In an adjoining chamber lie the mummies of a man, a woman and a child. These last are believed by some to have been executed in order to accompany their royal master to another world. Nothing can exceed the dramatic effect when the electric light floods the tomb and discloses these grim relics of an almost prehistoric civilization.

The mummy of the pharaoh of the exodus, also discovered within the last three years, is now at Cairo, waiting to be unrolled. Several religious societies have demanded that they be permitted to send a representative to be present as they do not believe that a body will be found and are firmly convinced that Biblical traditions as to this king's drowning in the Red sea will thus be confirmed.