The tomb of Tutankhamun (Tut.ankh.Amen), uncovered by the fifth Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter in November 1922, was the greatest archaeological find the world has ever seen. Though superficially plundered by thieves in antiquity, the burial remained intact, surrounded by a mass of funerary equipment arranged in three peripheral chambers. "The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen: The Burial Chamber" was originally published in 1927 as the second volume of Carter's trilogy. It records the work of the second and third seasons at the tomb: the opening of the four protective shrines; the discovery within of Tutankhamun's quartz-sandstone sarcophagus; the extraction of the king's three anthropoid coffins (the innermost of solid gold); and the final examination of the pharaoh's mummy.
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Howard Carter (1874-1939), artist and archaeologist, was attached to various epigraphic expeditions of the Egypt Exploration Fund, later joining the Egyptian Antiquities Service as Chief Inspector of Upper Egypt and finally working as excavator for Lord Carnarvon.
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This review is from: Tomb of Tut.Ankh.Amen Vol. 2: The Burial Chamber (Duckworth Egyptology Series) (Paperback)
If your a serious fan of King Tut and Egyptology, this book is a must. Part II of Howard Carter's three part series, it gives execellent detail on the excavation of the tomb and everything that goes on around it. It will give you a greater appreciation of just what went into the original discovery and it's preservation. Learn more about what we now take for granted.
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WHENEVER an archaeological discovery lays bare traces of a remote age, and the vanished human lives it fostered, we turn at once instinctively to the facts revealed to us with which we are most in sympathy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
slughi hound, black resin scarab, floral collarette, outermost shrine, polychrome glass, translucent calcite, green felspar, outermost coffin, second coffin, papyrus pith, quartzite sarcophagus, linen pall, third coffin, radial bars, gold coffin, second shrine, fatty matter, funerary furniture, first coffin, royal mummies, golden fan, outer coffin, golden coffin, faience beads, blue faience Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Empire, Book of the Dead, Middle Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, Cairo Museum, Plate Lxxvi, Queen Tyi, Two Kingdoms, Upper Egypt, Alan Gardiner, New York, Douglas Derry, Plate Lxv, Professor of Anatomy, The Collar of Horus New!
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WHENEVER an archaeological discovery lays bare traces of a remote age, and the vanished human lives it fostered, we turn at once instinctively to the facts revealed to us with which we are most in sympathy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
slughi hound, black resin scarab, floral collarette, outermost shrine, polychrome glass, translucent calcite, green felspar, outermost coffin, second coffin, papyrus pith, quartzite sarcophagus, linen pall, third coffin, radial bars, gold coffin, second shrine, fatty matter, funerary furniture, first coffin, royal mummies, golden fan, outer coffin, golden coffin, faience beads, blue faience Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Empire, Book of the Dead, Middle Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, Cairo Museum, Plate Lxxvi, Queen Tyi, Two Kingdoms, Upper Egypt, Alan Gardiner, New York, Douglas Derry, Plate Lxv, Professor of Anatomy, The Collar of Horus New!
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- Cairo Museum by Francesc Tiradritti in Front Matter, page 66, and page 107
- The Royal Mummies (Catalogue General Des Antiquites Egyptiennes Du Musee Du Caire, Nos 61051-61100 : Service Des Antiquites De L'egypte) (Duckworth Egyptology) by G. Elliot Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Valley of the Kings by Elizabeth E. Carter in Front Matter
- Theban Tombs Series: The Tomb of Amenemhet v. 1 (Special publications/The Theban Tomb series) by Norman de Garis Davies on page 92
- The Aztecs by Philip Ardagh in Back Matter
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