Tut's Rival

His dark eyes glistening with excitement, Egypt's young King Farouk sped last week to the Nile Delta. There, on the site of ancient Tanis, Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg had discovered the tomb of Psousennes I, second King of the 21st Dynasty (TIME, March 4). Last week, with Farouk watching, the professor opened Psousennes' silver mummy case.

The mummy's head was sheathed in a mask of pure gold. In the case were gold chest ornaments, necklaces, 21 bracelets inscribed with family records, six beautifully carved scarabs strung on a gold wire, gold finger and toe cases, like those on the mummy of Tutankhamen. Egyptologists declared that it was as remarkable an archeological haul as Howard Carter & Co. had found in King Tut's tomb in 1922.

But Psousennes himself was not part of the haul. The damp climate of the Ni!e Delta had crumbled his mummified body entirely. All that was left of the second King of Egypt's 21st Dynasty was a little dust, a few bones.

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