TAA i.12.05.recto

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But I realized it was getting late. It was with reluctance

that I reclosed the excac/<v>ation, put my most trustworthy men to

guard it, rode home by moonlight down between those/<the> rocky de- 

files of the Valley to the open desert plain, where I have my

house. I sent a runner into Luxor with a cable telling Lord

Carnavon, then in London, the good news. Little knowing that

had I gone a few centimetres deeper in that excavation, the

name of Tut.ankh.a/<A>men upon the seals of that doorway would have 

told me the secret – that almost ephemeral king, Tut.ankh.Amen,

in accordance with the religion he reverted to, and under the

Theban traditions, had made his grave in the Valley of the Tombs of

the Kings. 

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