TAA i.3.9.19

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and opened the doors and found within another golden shrine

similar to the first. Over this drooped a linen pall decorated

with golden rosettes.

          The chief thing aboue/<ut> this second shrine is that the

doors were sealed as well as bolted, and so we may be sure they

have not been tampered with, and that within them lie further

shrines, within the innermost of which, surrounded by all his

regalia still lies the dead king in his great stone sarcophagus.

And it would be well to mention here that when all the claims of

science and art have been justified, when this ric<h> harvest of

knowledge suddenly dieeddeeddisee disclosed to us has been reaped

and when the exquisite pieces of art and treasure have been re-

moved to a place where they will be considerably safer than they

are now, – when all this work has been done, the King Tutankhamen

will be left lying there in his tomb where he has lain for 30

centuries and where it was his wish to/<that he should> lie for ever.

          In a great archeological^sic discovery such as this is, one

of the greatest problems facing the archeologists^sic is the careful

r/<p>reservation of the objects he finds. His is a position of terrible

responsibility. The things are not his, – they belong to the

human race, – gifts to posterity from the mighty past. They are

probably unique and a thoughtless though well-intended touch on

the part of those handling these objects may do irreparable

damage. Hence it is essential to treat chemically the objects

found, to make them stand more easily the handling<,> <transport, and variation in temperature & humidity> to which they

are naturally very susceptible after thousands of years in a

tomb at constant temperature.

          Naturally, different types of objects require different

treatment and this <work> is a highly speci<a>lised branch of applied