The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter

Numerous photos and various drawings of the tomb, with 32 colour pages highlighting the entire volume. The studies by the author who made them and a valuable introduction by the famous archaeologist Zahi Hawass King Tut’s tomb still has secrets to reveal 100 years after its discovery The story of the boy king, whose tomb was discovered in 1922, isn’t complete yet The first of King. The paperweight appropriately (or perhaps quite inappropriately) consisted. A new translation of the book that announced to the world the discovery of the tomb in 1922. Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered the tomb, gave a paperweight to his friend Bruce Ingham as a gift. The greatest archaeological discovery of all time On November 5th 1922, Howard Carter wrote in his pocket diary: Discovered tomb under tomb of Ramsses VI investigated same & found seals intact. For six years, the archaeologist Howard Carter had dug up the desert sands in the Egypts so-called Valley of the Kings area in search of the tomb of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun but. What was Howard Carters job He was an archaeologist from England working in. For six seasons the legendary Valley of the Kings has yielded no secrets to Howard Carter and his archeological team: We had almost made up our minds that we. These pages read like an adventure book and a detective story, but above all like the story of a quest that is not yet over. The tomb of Egypts boy-king Tutankhamun was discovered by Howard Carter.

One of the most obscure phases of Egyptian history, and the golden age of modern archaeology, come alive together in Carter's pages, here expressly retranslated to celebrate the centenary of the event and bring the reader up to date with the most recent discoveries.

The complete translation of the book that announced to the world the discovery of the tomb in 1922. My astonishment left me speechless, and when Lord Carnarvon anxiously asked, 'Do you see anything?', all he could get out of me was, 'Yes, something wonderful.

The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter