In November 1922 the 5th Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter stood outside a sealed door in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Nervously, Carter made a small hole in the door, and reached up to hold a candle. "The candle flickered as the air escaped..." The excavators widened the gaps in the plaster and Lady Evelyn, Lord Carnarvon's daughter, Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter climbed in and everywhere "There was a glint of gold..." The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun was the first global media event and has given a legacy of understanding knowledge and insight into a remarkable civilization.
In November 1922 the 5th Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter stood outside a sealed door in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Nervously, Carter made a small hole in the door, and reached up to hold a candle. "The candle flickered as the air escaped..." The excavators widened the gaps in the plaster and Lady Evelyn, Lord Carnarvon's daughter, Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter climbed in and everywhere "There was a glint of gold..." The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun was the first global media event and has given a legacy of understanding knowledge and insight into a remarkable civilization.
This is a book about a man whose life and death became front-page news throughout the world between the autumn of 1922 and the spring of 1923 when, with his colleague Howard Carter, he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun and then, shortly afterwards, died.
The media circus that accompanied the opening of the tomb latched onto the glint of gold, the extraordinary treasures and, of course, he superstitious world of ancient Egypt. The back story of hard work, the acquisition of experience and knowledge in an in-hospitable climate, has been overlooked in a welter of excited prose - it is a book of discovery.
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