To us, 3,200 years, if the figures have any significance
a all, seem longer than all history. But to Tut-ankh- ttmen they have been only an instant. He does not know that but months remain to him of his sleep, and when the time comes for his disturbance he will not even be aware that the longest " wait " of human records has come to an end. Now his great sarcophagus is laid bare, his four shrines have been opened, and Mr. Carter stands ready to raise the lid that alone hides the body of the King. The story of last week's approach through the sealed doors to the sarcophagus ' has inspired the Times correspondent to the language of legend and fairy tale :— " Once more the bolts were drawn and the seal cord cut, and then the doors of this third shrine were opened, revealing yet a fourth shrine, also of gold, brighter and more dazzling than the last. This likewise had bolts of ebony, but there was no sealing."
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