How the excavation of Tutankhamen was reported by
The Illustrated London News 1927 - April 23rd
138. Cover: Secret's of Tutankhamen's store room - In colour and monochrome
139. New Tutankhamen art treasures :Exquisitively carved statuettes
140. Tutankhamen's honorific orders: Symbols of Sun and Moon
141. Solar symbolism in a Pharonic order: A Tutankhamen collar
with the Scarab beetle, Khepere, a form of solar metamorphosis
prominent in the design
142. Where the wonderful Tutankhamen statuettes illustrated in this number were found:
The store chamber in his tomb, showing the black chests that contained over thirty figures,
and (on left) part of the canopic shrine with one of it's four guardian goddesses
143. Ostrich feathers 3000 years old: Tutankhamen's ivory fan
144. Tutankhamen and the Leopard: A " Mystery" figure form the tomb
Tutankhamen as pastoral chief of the southern Egyptian kingdom:
A gold statuette of the young king entering the nether world on the back of a black leopard
145. The cow goddess Meh=urit: A new Tutankhamen discovery
A form of the goddess Hathor: The Cow goddess Meh=Urit,
with golden head symbolic of the sinking sun, and black neck
suggesting the vale of darkness
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