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The uncovering of the tomb of the mysterious boy king of Egypt, Tutankhamun, on November 26, 1922, was one of the most important and fruitful discoveries in modern archaeology. The find revealed four burial chambers so filled with priceless objects of gold, alabaster, lapis lazuli, and onyx that it took years to remove the nearly 5,000 dazzling works of art from the underground tomb. While Thomas Hoving details this amazing feat, he also explores the bitter power struggles, intrigues, behind-the-scenes maneuvers, deception, theft, and myriad scandals involving the tomb's discoverer, English adventurer and archaeologist Howard Carter (1873-1939); his benefactors, Lord George Carnarvon and his daughter, Lady Evelyn Herbert; and various competitors and opponents. The discovery helped to inspire a Renaissance in all things Egyptian, from the burial of King Tutankhamun in 1350 BCE to its permeation of twentieth-century popular culture (remember Steve Martin as Tut on Saturday Night Live?). Hoving utilizes the vast, previously untapped archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and explicates the thrills, mysteries, deaths, and controversies surrounging the discovery of King Tut's burial

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Author

Thomas Hoving, 1931-2009

Publisher

New York: Simon and Schuster

Published

1978

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671243050

Category

art

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, History

Rating

4.1 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14