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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 4, 2022 13:15:51 GMT
On November 4th, 1922, an Egyptian workman uncovered a step. The step lead to a door. A sealed door. Archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered the unplundered tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. When Carter poked a hole in the doorway and looked inside, his financial backer Lord Carnavon asked if he seen anything. Carter replied "things, wonderful things".
I'm not much for archaeology but it must have been something to look at objects that no one had seen for roughly 3000 years. And when you see the amazing riches in the tomb of a relatively minor Pharaoh, you have to wonder what was in the tombs of the biggies like Thutmose III or Ramses II.
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Post by clusium on Nov 4, 2022 14:38:32 GMT
On November 4th, 1922, an Egyptian workman uncovered a step. The step lead to a door. A sealed door. Archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered the unplundered tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. When Carter poked a hole in the doorway and looked inside, his financial backer Lord Carnavon asked if he seen anything. Carter replied "things, wonderful things".
I'm not much for archaeology but it must have been something to look at objects that no one had seen for roughly 3000 years. And when you see the amazing riches in the tomb of a relatively minor Pharaoh, you have to wonder what was in the tombs of the biggies like Thutmose III or Ramses II.
Awesome. But let's not forget that there was a curse that was visited on most of the people that were involved in that expedition. The Curse Of King Tut's Tomb
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 4, 2022 14:45:04 GMT
On November 4th, 1922, an Egyptian workman uncovered a step. The step lead to a door. A sealed door. Archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered the unplundered tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. When Carter poked a hole in the doorway and looked inside, his financial backer Lord Carnavon asked if he seen anything. Carter replied "things, wonderful things".
I'm not much for archaeology but it must have been something to look at objects that no one had seen for roughly 3000 years. And when you see the amazing riches in the tomb of a relatively minor Pharaoh, you have to wonder what was in the tombs of the biggies like Thutmose III or Ramses II.
Awesome. But let's not forget that there was a curse that was visited on most of the people that were involved in that expedition. The Curse Of King Tut's Tomb Hogwash. If Tut's Curse would have fallen on anyone, it would have been Howard Carter and he live until 1939, died at age 64. And there was no curse in the tomb at all
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Post by clusium on Nov 4, 2022 15:09:55 GMT
Awesome. But let's not forget that there was a curse that was visited on most of the people that were involved in that expedition. The Curse Of King Tut's TombHogwash. If Tut's Curse would have fallen on anyone, it would have been Howard Carter and he live until 1939, died at age 64. And there was no curse in the tomb at all
1939 was only 17 years later.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 4, 2022 15:16:32 GMT
Hogwash. If Tut's Curse would have fallen on anyone, it would have been Howard Carter and he live until 1939, died at age 64. And there was no curse in the tomb at all
1939 was only 17 years later. And Carter was 64 years old, not 24.
Plenty of people who dug up Tut lived to a ripe old age.
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Post by MCDemuth on Nov 4, 2022 16:37:46 GMT
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Post by MCDemuth on Nov 4, 2022 17:17:56 GMT
I've probably seen many video documentaries which have shown short clips of the burial chamber and some random photos of other parts of the tomb... But I don't think I've ever seen a nice video tour of the entire tomb...
Here's a great one starting outside in the Valley of the Kings, Entering the tomb, and showing all the rooms from different angles...
I believe Yukinori Kawae is Japanese, but the video is subtitled in English.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Nov 4, 2022 18:49:14 GMT
I've probably seen many video documentaries which have shown short clips of the burial chamber and some random photos of other parts of the tomb... But I don't think I've ever seen a nice video tour of the entire tomb... Here's a great one starting outside in the Valley of the Kings, Entering the tomb, and showing all the rooms from different angles... I believe Yukinori Kawae is Japanese, but the video is subtitled in English. Thanks, I will check that out later.
My mother was a huge archaeology buff. In 1979, we took a trip to NYC to see The Treasures of Tutankhamen exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was absolutely amazing. To see treasures that were 3000+ years old and the level of craftsmanship was something I was glad to have seen. I hope to go to Egypt someday and see the real thing. There was a huge "Tutmania" at the time. Even in song
I stood in line to see the Boy King
The riches that were buried with an insignificant Pharaoh with no military conquests. What must have Seti I, Tuthmose III or Ramses II's tomb must have been filled with.
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Post by clusium on Nov 4, 2022 19:28:43 GMT
1939 was only 17 years later. And Carter was 64 years old, not 24.
Plenty of people who dug up Tut lived to a ripe old age.
I actually saw some of the things that were excavated from Tut's tomb, back when I was 8 years old, when they were brought to Toronto Ontario for exhibition. Of course, being so long ago now, I do not remember very many of the artefacts.
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