The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh
Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the
fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world
had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the
burial of the king lay intact with its nest of coffins and funerary
shrines, surrounded by a mass of burial equipment arranged in three
peripheral chambers. Following on from the first volume's account of
the search for and initial discovery of the team, in the second volume
Howard Carter recounts the discovery of the king's burial chamber: the
breakthrough to the four protective shrines, the revelation of the
quartz-sandstone sarcophagus, the king's three coffins (his own of
pure gold) and the bejewelled mummy of the Pharaoh himself. Now
available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, the book includes over
150 photographs of the treasures that lay within the great burial
chamber of Tutankhamun.
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The Burial Chamber
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781472577641
Publisert
2015
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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