Callender does not think it worth the effort to expend any more energy in The Valley.
And Lord Carnarvon has made it clear that there will be no additional funding.
| owe it to myself to take it.
|n any event, this is probably my last chance…
But | want to give it a try.
Six full seasons we have excavated here, and season after season have drawn a blank.
Today begins the final season of excavation in The Valley of the Kings.
Lord Carnarvon is starting to lose faith. The money he invested in these digs has turned up no more than a few minor discoveries.
Today | received a telegram from him.
“Why the devil are you still there?”
At the level of the twelfth step, there was disclosed the upper part of a sealed doorway.
They are all intact, indicating that the door has never beenTheopened. tomb has not been entered.
The decipherable seals include that of the royal necropolis.
| make a small peephole under the wooden lintel, just large enough to insert an electric torch,
Anything, literally anything, might lie beyond that passage.
and discover that the passage beyond is filled from floor to ceiling with rubble.
|t is late, however, and darkness is already upon us.
| select the most trustworthy of my workmen to watch all night above the tomb.
| would have liked to spend the night in The Valley but it is forbidden. Too dangerous.
Once back at the hotel, | have a telegram sent to Lord Carnarvon.
“Have made wonderful discovery in Valley at last”
“Seals intact.”
“Re-covered same for your arrival.”
“Congratulations.”