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INSIDE THE TOMB
REISNER described the burial chamber and its
contents (below) as follows: “Partly on the sar-
cophagus and partly fallen behind it lay about
twenty gold-cased poles and beams of a large
One limestone block was For the excavators, it was
loosened and removed in their moment of triumph, canopy. On the western edge of the sarcoph-
agus were spread several sheets of gold inlaid
order to see in. A large but later that week, Reisner
with faience, and on the floor there was a con-
chamber is visible ex- sent a telegraph from Bos-
fused mass of gold-cased furniture.” ALAMY/ACI
tending up a little to east ton ordering that the work
and west of the door. It is halt in Egypt. The tomb
possible to see what ap- would be resealed.
pears to be a sarcophagus
in the foreground upon Ancient and Modern
which are several staves Born in 1867 in Indianapo-
or maces with gilded lis, George Reisner com-
tops. A good deal of gild- manded huge respect in
ing appears on other ob- Egyptology circles, having
jects upon the ground. It carried out a major archae-
is certain that the burial ological survey of the Nubia
is intact. region (today in southern
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