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Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon... King Tutankhamun's outer tomb opening...
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon... King Tutankhamun's outer tomb opening...
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January 30, 1923
THE WORLD, New York, January 30, 1923
* Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon
* King Tutankhamun's outer tomb opening
This 32 page newspaper has one column headlines one page 18 that include:
* TUT OF TOMB WAS A WEAK KING
* Hovered Between Amen and Aton Religions--Reigned at Least Six Years
* Delay In Work At Luxor
and more. Other news of the day.
This issue has light browning with little margin wear, otherwise good. Should be handled with care.
wikipedia notes: In 1907, after several hard years, Carter was introduced to Lord Carnarvon. Soon, Carter was supervising all of Carnarvon's excavations.
Carnarvon financed Carter's search for the tomb of a little known pharaoh, Tutankhamun, whose existence Carter had discovered. After several years of fruitless searching, Carnarvon was becoming dissatisfied with the lack of return from his investment and, in 1922, he gave Carter one more season of funding to find the tomb.
Carter's house in the Theban Necropolis
On 4 November 1922, Carter found the steps leading to Tutankhamun's tomb (subsequently designated KV62), by far the best preserved and most intact pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings. He wired Carnarvon to come, and on 26 November 1922, with Carnarvon, Carnarvon's daughter, and others in attendance, Carter made the famous "tiny breach in the top left hand corner" of the doorway, and was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place. He did not yet know at that point whether it was "a tomb or merely a cache", but he did see a promising sealed doorway between two sentinel statues. When Carnarvon asked him if he saw anything, Carter replied: "Yes, I see wonderful things".[1]
KV62 in the Valley of the Kings
The next several weeks were spent carefully cataloging the contents of the antechamber. On 16 February 1923, Carter opened the sealed doorway, and found that it did indeed lead to a burial chamber, and he got his first glimpse of the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun. All of these discoveries were eagerly covered by the world's press, but most of their representatives were stuck in the hotels; only H. V. Morton was allowed on the scene, and his vivid descriptions helped to cement Carter's reputation with the British public.
Carter's own papers suggest that he, Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn Herbert entered the tomb shortly after its discovery – without waiting for the arrival of Egyptian officials (as stipulated in their excavation permit).[citation needed] Artifacts and jewelry from the tomb were found in Carter's home after his death, suggesting that he had violated his permit.[citation needed]
When he discovered the tomb, it was said he also found 150 gold amulets and even a death mask weighing 11 kilograms, with which the pharaoh was buried. Carter was thought to have used an axe to retrieve the gold charms and the mummy was broken into 18 pieces.[citation needed] Due to the poor archaeological knowledge at the time, Carter left the mummy for hours without protection under the sun (in November, more than 35 degrees Celsius).
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