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Eve Drewelowe travel correspondence, 1928-1929
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not a blade of grass or a tree in sight, just this immense waste, white dessert waste with the seen heating down, and the flies thick and clinging stubbornly to the faces of the people. A long turned loading far down brings you to the scented darkened chamber of King Tut's Tomb. here he still lies after three thousand years, his funeral chamber in gold and colored paints in a remarkable state of preservation. The sarcophagus standing below in the room center contains King Tut's mummy (corpse) in one of the gold mummy cases. The other two, one solid gold and beautifully engraved have been removed to the museum in Cairo, together with the other treasures - jewellery, statues, furniture, alabaster pottery, preserved meats and fruits and what not. The other tombs seem to be burrowed right down into the very bowels of the earth -- the air is stiffling and hot. But the corridors and ceilings are all covered with colored symbols and paintings of intense interest and of almost perfect preservation. The pictures are all supposed to tell stories or relate histories of the life of the dead but one is astonished at the amount of work and the preserverance of these ancient Egyptian kings. The temples are entirely different. They are made of majestic pillars, immense both in circumference and height and thick stone walls. All the surfaces are covered
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not a blade of grass or a tree in sight, just this immense waste, white dessert waste with the seen heating down, and the flies thick and clinging stubbornly to the faces of the people. A long turned loading far down brings you to the scented darkened chamber of King Tut's Tomb. here he still lies after three thousand years, his funeral chamber in gold and colored paints in a remarkable state of preservation. The sarcophagus standing below in the room center contains King Tut's mummy (corpse) in one of the gold mummy cases. The other two, one solid gold and beautifully engraved have been removed to the museum in Cairo, together with the other treasures - jewellery, statues, furniture, alabaster pottery, preserved meats and fruits and what not. The other tombs seem to be burrowed right down into the very bowels of the earth -- the air is stiffling and hot. But the corridors and ceilings are all covered with colored symbols and paintings of intense interest and of almost perfect preservation. The pictures are all supposed to tell stories or relate histories of the life of the dead but one is astonished at the amount of work and the preserverance of these ancient Egyptian kings. The temples are entirely different. They are made of majestic pillars, immense both in circumference and height and thick stone walls. All the surfaces are covered
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