His mummy remained in the tomb until 2007, when it was removed from the He opened Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus in February 1924, revealing the pharaoh’s mummy for the first time. Carter spent the next eight years removing objects from the tomb, most of which are now held at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo Tutankhamun’s tomb was and remains the best preserved royal tomb ever discovered. Its sides areĪdorned with magnificent religious texts and fearful symbols of the dead.” This beautiful wooden construction towers nearly to the ceiling and fills the great sepulchral hall within a short span of its four walls. Shrine covered with gold inlaid with brilliant blue faience.

“It finallyĮnded in a wonderful revelation,” The Times wrote, “for before the spectators was the resplendent mausoleum of the king, a spacious and beautifully decorated chamber completely occupied by an immense 16, he began taking down the door to the burial tomb. Carter and his team spent nearly three months cataloging and removing objects from the tomb before he was able to reach the burial tomb. Carter opened the door slightly and held up a candle that revealed gold statues, bedsĪnd hundreds of other objects in the room behind the door. After three weeks of removing stone and rubble from a corridor behind the door, Mr.

Carter finally uncovered the door of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Fundedīy Lord Carnarvon, he began excavating the area in 1914 and found nothing for seven years. Winlock and decided to search for the tomb.

The English archaeologist Howard Carter corresponded with Mr. Winlock theorized that Tutankhamun was likely buried nearby. After years of study, Herbert Winlock, a curator at the Met, determined that the objects were left over from the embalming processĪnd funeral, and that the pit was not actually Tutankhamun’s tomb. Davis, proclaimed that he had discovered Tutankhamun’s tombĪnd donated some of the objects to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ayrton’s sponsor, the American Theodore M. Other objects belonging to Tutankhamun, then a relatively unknown 14th-century B.C. In 1907, the English archaeologist Edward Russell Ayrton uncovered a pit in the area containing pots, dishes and King Tutankhamen’s tomb is situated in the Valley of the Kings, east of the Nile River in Egypt. The New York Times called it “perhaps, the most extraordinary day in the whole history of Egyptian excavation.” 16, 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen’s recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt. Go to related post from our partner, findingDulcinea ».Learn about key events in history and their connections to today.

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