How the excavation of Tutankhamen was reported by
The Illustrated London News 1928 - February 4th
153. Cover: Tutankhamen: A veiled mystery revealed
remarkable photographs
The latest secrets of the canopic shrine
154. After removal of the canopy:
The veiled secret of the inmost recess in Tutankhamen's Tomb
The most important object (after the mummy)
covered in it's linen pall over 3000 years old
155. A Tutankhamen mystery solved:
Wonders hidden in the great canopic shrine in the innermost recess
The magnificent Gesso-Gilt outer canopy (or Canopic shrine),
showing two of the four guardian goddesses - Isis (left) and Selket,
misplaced through " Gross carelessness" on the part of those who carried out the Kings's burial
156. The secret revealed: Tutankhamen's secret canopic chest
With corner figures of guardian goddesses, and inscriptions:
The beautiful canopic chest of Alabaster, on a silver-handled sledge,
resting on the larger sledge-likebase of the removed canopy
157. Tutankhamen's canopic chest unlidded: Portrait "stoppers."
The remarkable sight disclosed when the lid of the goddess-guarded
canopic chest was removed: Portrait-busts of Tutankhamen
forming stoppers of receptacles containing the four canopic jars
158. The Canopic shrine's inmost secret: The gold coffin in little.
An exact miniature replica of Tuankhamen's great gold coffin,
and even more elaborately inlaid: one of the four anthropoid
"Canopic Jars" containing the King's viscera, within the Canopic chest
159. The four "pitiful" goddesses & Portrait heads:
160. Caponic shrine sculptures of supreme beauty
161. The most complete archaeological discovery of the reign:
Tutankhamen's Tomb
The solid gold portrait-mask which covered the head of the
young Pharaoh's mummy
From Illustrated London News Silver Jubilee Record Number of
George V and Queen Mary - April 17th 1935