ABSTRACT
The recent discovery at Thebes in Upper Egypt has of late been so fully and so frequently discussed in various publications, that it is unnecessary to do more than recapitulate the heads of the story in our present colurnns. The leading facts are briefly these: For the last ten years or more it had been suspected that the Theban Arabs had found a royal sepulchre. Objects of great rarity and antiquity were being brought to Europe every season by travellers who purchased them from native dealers living on the spot; and many of these objects were historically traceable to certain royal dynasties which made Thebes their capital city. Some ofthe travellers were also dealers and resold their purchases to the British Museum and the Louvre. At length suspicion became certainty.
