TUTANKHAMEN’S SHRINES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 2

TUTANKHAMEN’S SHRINES.

ERECTION IN CAIRO AIUSEUM. The Conservators of the Egyptian Museum have made use of the summer months to erect for public exhibition the three remaining golden shrines which enclosed the coffins of Tutankhamen. The gold coffin in which the mummy was originally placed is in the museum. The mummy has remained at Luxor, where the tomb was discovered by the late liord Carnarvon and Ills associate, Mr Carter. It will be remembered that there were four in all, one fitting inside the other, and each covered outside and in with gold loaf, showing a mass of exquisite decoration in repousse work. They now stand one beside the other in the main upper gallery of the museum, and will form an additional attraction this winter to the Tutankhamen exhibits. They are well exposed on all sides, and the interiors are lit up by invisible electric lights, so that not only the outside but a great deal of the ‘work on the inner walls can bo clearly seen. They make a particularly impressive sight towards the end of the afernoon, when, in the gloom of the gallery, the gold of the lighted interiors glows ns if it were burning, and each of the shrines looks like a fiery furnace.