TUTANKHAMEN THE POLITICS OF DISCOVERY.(Review)

From: The Middle East | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: Rhodes, Fred | Copyright information

TUTANKHAMEN THE POLITICS OF DISCOVERY

By Howard Carter published by Libri ISBN 1 901965 00 7 price 17.95 [pounds sterling] paperback

"No man is wise at all times -- perhaps least of all the archaeologist who finds his efforts to carry out an all absorbing task frustrated by a thousand pin-pricks and irritations without end. It is not for me to affix the blame for what occurred, nor yet to bear responsibility for a dispute in which at one moment the interests o...

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