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Sep 14, 2016 · This mother lode came to be known as the Dawson City archive. It is the King Tut’s tomb of early movies. Why and how it came to be found in Dawson is a story in itself.
Nov 1, 2022 · See the original photographs of the momentous occasion when King Tut’s tomb was opened and explored for the very first time. November 4, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings, a watershed moment for the world of archaeology.
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Jul 16, 2017 · When Carter arrived in Egypt in 1891, he became convinced there was at least one undiscovered tomb–that of the little-known Tutankhamun, or King Tut, who lived around 1400 B.C. and died when he was still a teenager.
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An upgrade of the Boy King's burial chamber took a decade.
After almost a decade of painstaking work, conservators in 2019 revealed the revamped tomb of Tutankhamen, better known as King Tut.
In addition to cleaning and restoring the paintings that adorn the walls of the tomb, the combined efforts of the Getty Conservation Institute and the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities focused on combating the wear and tear sustained through decades of tourist activity, and protecting it from further decay and deterioration.
Tutankhamen
The 12th pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty, Tutankhamen (or Tutankhamun) became king of Egypt when he was only nine years old. He ruled for less than a decade, from approximately 1332 to 1323 B.C., before dying mysteriously at the age of 19. Experts now believe he contracted gangrene from an infected leg wound.
Despite his short reign, King Tut has become the most famous of all Egypt’s pharaohs thanks to the splendour of his tomb, which was first discovered in 1922 by the British archaeologist Howard Carter. The entrance to the tomb, located in the famous Valley of the Kings, had been concealed by debris, and remained hidden for 3,000 years after the pharaoh’s death.
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- Sarah Pruitt
Pair this narrative with the photographs you see here of the treasure horde Carter and his aristocratic benefactors stole, er, discovered in the tomb, and you’ve got yourself one heck of a real-life-adventure.
Jul 5, 2024 · One particular photo from Burton's collection recreates the first view Howard Carter had as he broke through the final door into the tomb itself.
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Nov 11, 2015 · For years, archaeologists have searched Egypt’s Valley of the Kings for Nefertiti’s tomb. Now, new scans of King Tutankhamun's burial chamber support a recent theory that the boy-king’s tomb ...
