When Howard Carter’s team entered Tutankhamun’s tomb, the astonishing survival of its contents seemed almost impossible. Gold still covered royal furniture. Linen, leather, wood, baskets, sandals, plant material, and other fragile substances had endured for more than three millennia. But…
When Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened in 1922, the world was desperate to see what Howard Carter had found. There was no television broadcast from the Valley of the Kings, no digital camera, and no instant way to share thousands of…
Imagine opening a room sealed for more than 3,000 years and finding it crowded with ancient furniture, chariots, boxes, statues, weapons, jewelry, clothing, vessels, and hundreds of smaller objects. Now imagine that there is no computer, no digital camera, no…
When Howard Carter looked through a small opening in Tutankhamun’s tomb in November 1922, he saw rooms crowded with objects that had remained hidden for more than 3,000 years. Gilded beds, dismantled chariots, sealed boxes, ritual furniture, statues, weapons, jewelry,…
Imagine descending a staircase cut into the rock of the Valley of the Kings and standing before a doorway that had remained hidden beneath debris for centuries. Beyond it was not an empty chamber or a disturbed collection of broken…
