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The Placer Herald
Rocklin, Auburn, Placer County, California
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Archaeologist M. Mariette discovers the intact tomb of Pharaoh Amosis in Thebes, containing a gold-leaf coffin, 30 valuable jewels, and a gold hatchet ornamented with lapis lazuli. A letter from Cairo reports this find, noting a prior similar discovery of the Apis tomb.
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A letter from Cairo says:
The general subject of conversation in this city is a discovery which has just been made by the well known archaeologist, M. Mariette. He has found at Thebes, after long and difficult researches, the tomb, still intact, of Pharaoh Amosis. The king is lying in a coffin, completely covered with gold leaf, ornamented with large wings painted on it. Thirty jewels of great value were found in the same coffin by the side of the king, as was also a hatchet of gold, ornamented with figures in lapis lazuli. Some years ago M. Mariette had a similar piece of good fortune in finding the tomb of Apis, the jewels of which now form the principal ornament of the Egyptian Museum of the Louvre.
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intact tomb discovered containing gold-leaf coffin ornamented with painted wings, thirty valuable jewels, and a gold hatchet with lapis lazuli figures. previous apis tomb jewels now in louvre.
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M. Mariette found the intact tomb of Pharaoh Amosis at Thebes after long researches. The king lies in a coffin covered with gold leaf and ornamented with large painted wings. Thirty great value jewels and a gold hatchet ornamented with lapis lazuli figures were in the coffin. Some years ago, M. Mariette found the Apis tomb, its jewels now ornamenting the Egyptian Museum of the Louvre.