The archaeologist who discovered King Tut's tomb almost certainly stole artifacts from it, a new book reveals:
amulet you showed me has been undoubtedly stolen from the tomb of Tutankhamun,” Alan Gardiner, a philologist who helped translate the site’s hieroglyphs, wrote to Carter in a previously unpublished 1934 letter. The letter will be published in full for the first time in the forthcoming bookCarter spent a decade excavating the tomb and cataloguing its contents, which he sent to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The funerary mask of King Tutankhamun at the Cairo Museum, Egypt. Photo by Tim Graham, courtesy Getty Images. “They were suspected of having broken into the tomb before its official opening, taking out artifacts, including jewelry, sold after their respective deaths,” Bob Brier, an Egyptologist at Long Island University and author of the forthcoming book, told the
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