Title: Valley of the Kings. Howard Carter and the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb
Author(s): Daniel Meyerson
Designer: Rein Soonsein
Publisher: Äripäev
City: Tallinn
Year: 2015
Original language: English
Translator: Victoria Traat
ISBN: 9789949523696
Pages: 224
Series: Wonderful History
Condition: good book, content available.
Dimensions: 220x155
Size: Hardcover
"There is one name in Egyptian history that everyone knows. It is Tutankhamun, the child-dangerous pharaoh, who reappeared before the world in 1922 and caused an unprecedented sensation. The story revolving around the 3,300-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun, son of the pharaoh Akhenaten, and its discoverers tells of incredible fortunes, but also of the everyday life of archaeology, where complex personalities clash and the politics of the day interfere with the first steps of young science. The author goes through the whole long journey, starting with drawing aristocrats' pets with a simple country boy, Howard Carter, and ending with lifting the lid of an underground treasure chest full of gold and gems. In between, there are tons of dust and disappointments, adventures, dark curses, humiliations and fights with both authorities and tomb robbers, against the backdrop of the international export of treasures to the collections of museums and financiers. "The Kings "The Valley" brings to life the unique splendor of the ancient pharaohs through the dust of excavations."
Keywords:
Business
Rein Soonsein
Wonderful History
Tutankhamun, Egyptian Pharaoh
Carter, Howard, 1873-1939
Petrie, Flinders, 1853-1942
pharaohs
tombs
discovery
archaeologists
Egyptologists
lifestyle
archaeological excavations
antiquities
Ancient Egypt
Egypt