Unremarkable ruler who fired millions of imaginations Revealing new research.(Features)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: April 19, 2005 | Copyright information

A MINOR pharaoh in the great span of ancient Egypt, Tutankhamun, the boy ruler, owes his place in history due to one event, three millennia after his death.

It was the discovery of his completely intact tomb by the British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922, celebrated as the archaeological find of the 20th century.

Unviolated by grave robbers, Tutankhamun's tomb with its fabulous gold objects and trappings was, apparently, hidden by the mud huts of workers building the tomb of Rameses VI. That it was found at all is due to the archaeological patron Lord Carnarvon's ...

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