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The British Egyptologist Howard Carter spent Many relatively fruitless years excavating in the Valley of the Kings at Thebes on behalf of his patron, Lord Carnarvon. But on November 4, 1922, the first step of a carved descending staircase was unearthed. After debris was removed, a long corridor and a sealed door was uncovered. When Carter looked through a hole he had pierced through the wall without proper permission, all he could make out was “gold. Everywhere the glint of gold”.
The antechamber he saw was packed with objects, ceremonial couches in the shape of bizarre animals, boxes of linen, chariots and life-sized statues. Three more chambers were also found: the burial chamber, the treasury and an annexe. Tutankhamun lived during a fascinating period of religious upheaval at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty, when the cult of the Aten had only recently been abandoned. It was his father, Akhenaten, that put him in such a position.
When the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered, it gave newspapers all over the world front page hits. Everyone went Egyptian crazy. Tourists flooded the area and people wanted more and more of it. The treasures found by Carter were immediately transferred from the tomb to the Cairo Museum. In which no photos were taken to see where the treasures were placed exactly, which would of had contributed a lot to Egyptology today. Overall, sadly, Tutankhamun would no longer be known as a person, but as a treasure.
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