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    Tutankhamen : and the Discovery of His Tomb by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter
    Tutankhamen : and the Discovery of His Tomb by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter
    Tutankhamen : and the Discovery of His Tomb by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter
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    Tutankhamen : and the Discovery of His Tomb by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter

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    Tutankhamen : and the Discovery of His Tomb by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter is an amazing account of the discovery in the early 20th century.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781537810836
    Tutankhamen : and the Discovery of His Tomb by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter

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      Tutankhamen - G. Elliot Smith

      TUTANKHAMEN : AND THE DISCOVERY OF HIS TOMB BY THE LATE EARL OF CARNARVON AND MR. HOWARD CARTER

      ..................

      G. Elliot Smith

      LACONIA PUBLISHERS

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      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by G. Elliot Smith

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

      CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTORY

      CHAPTER II: EXPLORATION OF THE THEBAN TOMBS OF THE KINGS

      CHAPTER III: TUTANKHAMEN

      CHAPTER IV: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DISCOVERY

      CHAPTER V: THE VALLEY OF THE TOMBS

      CHAPTER VI: THE STORY OF THE FLOOD

      CHAPTER VII: GETTING TO HEAVEN

      CHAPTER VIII: THE ETHICS OF DESECRATION

      TUTANKHAMEN

      AND THE DISCOVERY OF HIS TOMB

      BY THE LATE

      EARL OF CARNARVON

      AND

      MR. HOWARD CARTER

      BY

      G. ELLIOT SMITH

      M.A., M.D., Litt.D., F.R.S.

      Professor of Anatomy in the University of London

      AUTHOR OF

      THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, THE ROYAL MUMMIES,

      THE EVOLUTION OF THE DRAGON, ETC.

      PREFACE

      ..................

      DURING THE PERIOD WHEN THE newspapers were publishing daily reports of the progress of the work in Tutankhamen’s tomb and Mr. Harry Burton’s photographs, which gave us so vivid an impression of the objects that were being found, I wrote for the Daily Telegraph a series of articles discussing the wider significance of the startling discoveries. They did not describe the tomb itself or the wonderful collection of funerary equipment, but were merely a general commentary on the meaning of the information being given by the reporters from the Theban necropolis. Nor was any attempt made to collect the few facts concerning Tutankhamen himself, or even to discuss the events of his time. The exploration of the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, for which the late Lord Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter were responsible, had brought to light the tomb of the youthful nonentity Tutankhamen, which sheds a dazzling searchlight on one particular phase of the history of civilization thirty centuries ago. What I set out to attempt was to interpret the deeper meaning of those Egyptian beliefs which found such brilliant expression in the luxuriously extravagant equipment of his tomb.

      I have been urged to collect these articles into the more convenient form of this little book. As they were merely comments on the descriptions of the actual tomb and its contents the separate issue of these topical and ephemeral notes seemed at first to lack any justification, but I have received so many requests for information and guidance that I thought it might serve some useful purpose to redraft my articles and give such bibliographical references as would help the general reader to understand the results that have so far been attained and to appreciate the value of the more important discoveries that next season’s work will certainly reveal.

      I have used the pharaoh’s name Tutankhamen as the title of this book merely as a label to suggest the circumstance that called it into being. But I have written an introductory chapter to give an account of what is known of him and his times.

      BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

      ..................

      THE ONLY ACCURATE AND RELIABLE account that has ever been given of the Egyptian funerary practices and their significance is Dr Alan Gardiner’s introductory memoir on The Tomb of Amenemhēt (illustrated by Nina de Garis Davies) which was published in 1915 under the auspices of the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society).

      Dr. Gardiner describes the actual condition of affairs found in a private Theban tomb of the’ eighteenth dynasty (in the reign of Thothmes III, about a century earlier than Tutankhamen); and in the light of his intimate knowledge and understanding of the literature of the period, he interprets the meaning of the arrangement of the tomb and especially of the scenes and inscriptions sculptured and painted upon the walls, which Mrs de Garis Davies has reproduced with such skill and accuracy. This unique work is indispensable to anyone who wants to read what the ancient Egyptians themselves actually wrote to express their beliefs or interpret their customs, Professor James H. Breasted’s History of Egypt and Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt are the best guides to a knowledge of the history and religion of ancient Egypt. The late Sir Gaston Maspero’s Egyptian Art (London, 1913) contains a great deal of information directly relevant to the interpretation of objects in Tutankhamen’s tomb. But Mr Burton’s photographs of Tutankhamen’s funerary equipment give a new interest and value to Birch’s edition of Sir Gardner Wilkinson’s The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (London, 1878), for many of the objects and funeral scenes depicted in that remarkable book enable us to form a mental picture of the Valley of the Tombs as the funeral of Tutankhamen wound its way to the place where Mr Howard Carter has just brought to light so many articles closely analogous to those depicted in Birch’s and Wilkinson’s book.

      All the information at present available concerning the life of Tutankhamen and Horemheb, his successor once removed, was collected and published (in 1912) by the late Sir Gaston Maspero, The Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatankhamanou (Theodore M. Davis Excavations).

      The other volumes of reports published by Mr. Theodore Davis are valuable for reference and comparison in studying the results of the exploration of Tutankhamen’s tomb. The two volumes, The Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou (1907) and The Tomb of Queen Tiyi (1910) are specially important, and relevant to the discoveries in Tutankhamen’s tomb. Mr. Arthur Weigall’s book The Life and Times of Akhanaton gives a popular and romantic picture of his conception of the history of the times of Tutankhamen and his father-in-law.

      TUTANKHAMEN

      CHAPTER I

      ..................

      INTRODUCTORY

      NEVER BEFORE IN THE HISTORY of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as

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