Tutankhamen

On 25 November 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon revealed to an astonished world one of the most fabulous archaeological finds of all time: the tomb of Tutankhamun. The royal burial chamber, standing almost exactly as it was left some three thousand years ago, was crammed with treasures of both extraordinary beauty and priceless value, dating from the height of Egyptian civilization.

It was possible to recapture and publish the intricate details and splendid proportions of the objects of Egypt when permission was granted, a few years ago, to remove the museum cases and photograph them under studio lighting conditions and modern colour-reversal process. This volume contain thirty-two of the magnificent photographs taken by F. L. Kenett on that occasion, together with more than a hundred monochromic illustrations.

These illustrations support the text by the leading French Egyptologist, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, in which the story of the discovery of the tomb, the significance of the short reign of this great Egyptian king to the short reign of history and culture is presented.