How the excavation of Tutankhamen was reported by
The Illustrated London News 1927 - January 22nd
124. Cover: "Of indescribable beauty"
Unpublished photographs of treasures of Tutankhamen's store chamber
For the first time
125. The "Madonna" of ancient Egypt:
A statuette of Isis, one of the guardian goddesses
of the canopic shrine, from the store chamber opened in Tutankhamen's tomb
126. Of indescribable beauty: The goddess guarded canopic shrine
Containing the canopic jars holding the King's viscera:
The golden shrine surmounted by solar cobras, and guarded by
statuettes of Tutelary goddesses - Isis, Nephthys, Neith and Selkit
127. For Tutankhamen's death voyage: A model ship in his tomb
Complete with furled sails, rigging and cabins: One of many model ships
in the store chamber of Tutankhamen's tomb, symbolical of the King's pilgrimage
across the waters to the holy mountain of the west
128. The store chamber explored in Tutankhamen's tomb:
Treasures of the inmost recess
A wooden Gesso- Gilt stauette of the young King
129. An Ostrich fan 3000 years old; and Tutankhamen's insignia