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Tut-ench-Amun: ein ägyptisches Königsgrab

Howard Carter · 1924

A 1924 German edition of Howard Carter's account of excavating Tutankhamun's tomb, with photographs of the dig site.

This 1924 book records the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, the discovery that made him famous to the modern world.

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Black-and-white photograph of a desert valley with steep cliffs. Excavation work is visible: a stone-walled staircase leads down into a cut in the hillside, with a canvas tent and workers on the left and a wooden hut on the right. Letters A and B are marked on the image.
Howard Carter, Tut-ench-Amun: ein ägyptisches Königsgrab, vol. 1, German edition, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1924.

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What it is

This book is a German translation of the excavation record written by archaeologist Howard Carter, published in Leipzig in 1924. It describes the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and includes photographs of the site in the Valley of the Kings.

Why it matters

Carter's excavation, begun in the 1920s, revealed the almost intact tomb of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun and became one of the most famous archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Because this is a translation rather than the original English text, it is a step further from Carter's own words, but it still shows how quickly the discovery spread across Europe and shaped how people learned about Tutankhamun.

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  • What does the photograph of the excavation site tell you about the conditions the archaeologists worked in?
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