Here, then, was full confirmation of the narrative.

With such evidence of the narrator's truth before us, we could not doubt the other matters which he had told, such as the blood on the mummy hand, or marks of the seven fingers on the throat of the strangled Sheik.
"I shall not trouble you with details of all we saw, or how we learned all we knew.

Part of it was from knowledge common to scholars; part we read on the Stele in the tomb, and in the sculptures and hieroglyphic paintings on the walls.
"Queen Tera was of the Eleventh, or Theban Dynasty of Egyptian Kings which held sway between the twenty-ninth and twenty-fifth centuries before Christ.

She succeeded as the only child of her father, Antef.
She must have been a girl of extraordinary character as well as ability, for she was but a young girl when her father died.

Her youth and sex encouraged the ambitious priesthood, which had then achieved immense power.