The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Volume 1

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• The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian King 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
• Published in 1923
• This is the first volume of Carter's trilogy
• Describing the years of frustration in search of the burial site
• The triumph of its eventual discovery and the long