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Now that the jewellery associated with the sarcophagus of King Psusennes at San el Hagar, in Lower Egypt, has been removed to the Cairo Museum, further details are becoming available which serve to indicate more fully the cultural and historical significance of the find. The similarity in the circumstances of discovery with those of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen is striking. For years Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter excavated in the Valley of the Kings without notable success until they made their great discovery. At Tanis, which had already been explored by both Mariette and Petrie with indifferent results, Prof. Montet pursued his investigation of the relics of the obscure Twenty-first and Twenty-second Dynasties for nine years from 1929, before last year he made the remarkable discovery of the gold and silver sarcophagus of KingShishak, of the Twenty-second Dynasty in the otherwise rifled tomb of King Psusennes, of theTwenty-first Dynasty.
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King Psusennes's Tomb at Tanis. Nature 145, 584–585 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145584b0
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