Siéntense a la orilla del Nilo y disfruten de su historia 𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖
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ALT This photograph, taken by Harry Burton, captures part of the scene that met Howard Carter's eyes when he first looked into Tutankhamun's tomb on 26 November 1922. It shows three ceremonial couches lined up along the western wall of the antechamber with other objects placed around, on top and below them. Under the middle cow-headed couch is a heap of white oval storage boxes containing preserved joints of meat.
ALT Harry Burton's photograph of the northern wall of the antechamber in Tutankhamun's tomb shows the so-called sentinel statues 'guarding' the sealed doorway leading to the King's Burial Chamber. This colourised photograph was created by Dynamichrome in 2015 and is © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
ALT Part of the entry in Howard Carter's excavation journal for 26 November 1922. Carter describes his first look into Tutankhamun's tomb: 'It was sometime before one could see, the hot air escaping caused the candle to flicker, but as soon as one's eyes became accustomed to the glimmer of light, the interior of the chamber gradually loomed before one, with its strange and wonderful medley of extraordinary and beautiful objects heaped upon one another. There was naturally short suspense for those present who could not see, when Lord Carnarvon said to me, "Can you see anything". I replied to him, "Yes, it is wonderful".'
ALT Royal Mail Special Stamp Collection for Tutankhamun. Miniature set of four stamps, three feature photographs Harry Burton took during the tomb's clearance. The Burton photographs are part of the Tutankhamun Archive at the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
ALT Royal Mail Special Stamp Collection for Tutankhamun. The main set of eight stamps features a selection of objects found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, now in the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The photographs were taken by Araldo De Luca.
