Solution—Class Day

The Museum authorities knew the communication was not an authentic one because of the manner of expressing the dates of the Pharaoh’s reign. All B.C. dates, in the Christian calendar, are expressed in the reverse manner from A.D. dates, for obvious reasons. Thus, for example, Moses lived from 1571 to 1451 B.C. and Tutankhamen reigned from 1358 to 1350 B.C.