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Two years after British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen
discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt, they
uncover the greatest treasure of the tomb–a stone sarcophagus containing
a solid gold coffin that holds the mummy of Tutankhamen.
When Carter first arrived in Egypt in 1891, most of the ancient Egyptian
tombs had been discovered, although the little-known Pharaoh
Tutankhamen, who had died when he was a teen, was still unaccounted for.
After World War I, Carter began an intensive search for “King Tut’s
Tomb,ö finally finding steps to the burial room hidden in the debris
near the entrance of the nearby tomb of King Ramses VI in the Valley of
the Kings. On November 26, 1922, Carter and fellow archaeologist Lord
Carnarvon entered the tomb, finding it miraculously intact.
Thus began a monumental excavation process in which Carter carefully
explored the four-room tomb over four years, uncovering an incredible
collection of several thousand objects. The most splendid architectural
find was a stone sarcophagus containing three coffins nested within each
other. Inside the final coffin, made out of solid gold, was the mummy of
the boy-king Tutankhamen, preserved for more than 3,000 years.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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