The vital question is will the expert eye be able to detect anything to support the legend that Menes was killed by a hippopotamus?
No sensational inscriptions) have been found so far.
You see, continued Mr. Emery, at that time hieroglyphic writing was very primitive. It took the form of picture writing and we have specimens of this on the vases, which bear pictures of hunting scent and gazelles, but what they mean is very difficult to say.
No, there is no hint in these pictures of Menes' reputed conquest of Lower Egypt and of his consolidation of all Egypt as one kingdom.
Twenty-seven Rooms There are 27 rooms in' the tomb.
We have still to reach two or three more chambers and magazines before we have finished, so it is just possible that the best is yet to come.
But unfortunately the tomb has in the far distant past been plundered very badly.
The finds cannot be compared in perfection and artistic value to those in the tomb of Tutankhamen, who lived 3,000 years after this tomb was sealed up.
The work of clearing the tomb difficult because the roof has len in.
There are 40 of us at work clear-
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