The Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter

Professor David P Silverman, a world authority on Ancient Egypt, contributes an engaging introduction exclusive to the Folio edition. The companion volume faithfully reproduces Carter’s original text, published between 19, along with the astonishing first black-and-white photographs of the tomb as it was opened and discovered taken by Harry Burton – pictures that created a worldwide sensation. This two-volume edition includes an entire volume of 140 magnificent colour images taken by photographic pioneer Sandro Vannini, presenting Tutankhamun’s riches in unprecedented clarity.

The Tomb of Tutankhamun is his personal account of uncovering the pharaoh’s treasures – from the euphoria of unsealing the burial chamber to anguish at the untimely death of his patron, Lord Carnarvon, and the painstaking work to collate more than 5,000 artefacts and tease out their significance. That changed for ever in 1923, when Howard Carter made one of the most dazzling archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by excavators led by the Egyptologist Howard Carter. Join Howard Carter in his fascinating odyssey toward the most. Howard Carter, (born May 9, 1874, Swaffham, Norfolk, Englanddied March 2, 1939, London), British archaeologist, who made one of the richest and most-celebrated contributions to Egyptology: the discovery (1922) of the largely intact tomb of King Tutankhamen. Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary. For more than 3,000 years, the name of Tutankhamun was unknown to all but a select few historians and Egyptologists. Buy a used copy of The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen book by Howard Carter, A. Howard Carter - The Tomb of Tutankhamen - 9780214654282 - KRF0005243.

The Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter