Science: Psousennes Found

From the Nile Delta last week Archeologist Pierre Montet sent word he had found the tomb of King Psousennes I. The discovery caused crows of delight from Egyptologists, because up to last week no royal tomb of the 21st Dynasty had been located.

About ten centuries before Christ, Egypt's Rameses III conquered in sea battle a coalition of Trojans, Achaeans and Philistines. The better to exploit her new-won sea power, Egypt moved her capital from Thebes, 400 miles up river, to Tanis, 60 miles from modern Alexandria, close to the sea but not...

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