The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun [Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with its nest of coffins and funerary shrines, surrounded by a mass of burial equipment arranged in three peripheral chambers.
After the long search for the tomb and its initial discovery and excavation (volume 1), after the discovery of the king’s resting place and body (volume 2), the third and final volume of Howard Carter’s account sees him reach the treasury, full of the incredible riches that the Pharaoh had sort to take with him to the world beyond and which had seemed lost to time before Carter’s historic discovery. Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, the book includes over 150 photographs of the treasury and its contents.
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Foreword
Preface
List of Plates
Introduction: Facts and Theories Relating to the Kings Involved in the Aten Heresy
1. The Room Beyond the Burial Chamber (A Treasury)
2. The Funerary Equipment Found in the Room Beyond the Burial Chamber
3. The Annexe (A Store-Room)
4. The Objects Found in the Annexe (A Store Room)
4.1 Extraneous Objects Not Traditionally Belonging to the Annexe (A Store-Room)
4.2 The Contents Proper of the Annexe (A Store-Room)
5. The Main Cause of the Deterioration and Chemical Changes Among the Objects in the Tomb
Appendix I: Report Upon the Two Human Foetuses Discovered in the Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen
Appendix II: The Chemistry of the Tomb
Appendix III: Plates
Index
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In the third and final volume of his classic account of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Howard Carter reaches the Pharaoh’s treasury and the riches he sought to take with him to the Afterlife.
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The climactic final volume of the legendary discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series
Bringing together books and thinkers that have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, the Bloomsbury Revelations series celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury Academic's non-fiction publishing. Including books by the likes of Carol Adams, Winston Churchill, Slavoj Zizek, Ferdinand de Saussure, Ronald Dworkin, Constantin Stanislavski, Susan Strange and Gilles Deleuze, this is an essential library of the thinkers who have fundamentally shaped the way we see the modern world.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781472577771
Publisert
2014-10-23
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
313 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272
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