Tutankhamun Pyramid Interior Photos

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Tutankhamun Pyramid Interior Photos

These Images were taken in 1922 and recolored for the first time.....

The discovery of Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 is without a doubt the greatest archaeological find in history, but it certainly didn’t come about easily – in fact, it took Egyptologist and archaeologist, Howard Carter, no less than 15 years to find it.

 

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A ceremonial bed in the shape of the Celestial Cow, surrounded by provisions and other objects in the antechamber of the tomb.

 

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A gilded lion bed, clothes chest and other objects in the antechamber. The wall of the burial chamber is guarded by statues

 

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An assortment of model boats in the treasury of the tomb.

 

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A gilded lion bed and inlaid clothes chest among other objects in the antechamber.

 

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Under the lion bed in the antechamber are several boxes and chests, and an ebony and ivory chair which Tutankhamun used as a child.

 

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A gilded bust of the Celestial Cow Mehet-Weret and chests sit in the treasury of the tomb.

 

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Chests inside the treasury.

 

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Ornately-carved alabaster vases in the antechamber.

 

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In a "laboratory" set up in the tomb of Sethos II, conservators Arthur Mace and Alfred Lucas clean one of the sentinel statues from the antechamber.

 

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Howard Carter, Arthur Callender and an Egyptian worker wrap one of the sentinel statues for transport.

 

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Arthur Mace and Alfred Lucas work on a golden chariot from Tutankhamun's tomb outside the "laboratory" in the tomb of Sethos II.

 

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A statue of Anubis on a shrine with pallbearers' poles in the treasury of the tomb.

 

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Carter, Callende, and two workers remove the partition wall between the antechamber and the burial chamber.

 

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Inside the outermost shrine in the burial chamber, a huge linen pall with gold rosettes, reminiscent of the night sky, covers the smaller shrines within.

 

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Carter, Mace and an Egyptian worker carefully roll up the linen pall covering the second shrine.

 

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Carter, Callender and two Egyptian workers carefully dismantle one of the golden shrines within the burial chamber.

 

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Carter examines Tutankhamun's sarcophagus.

 

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Carter and a worker examine the solid gold innermost sarcophagus.

 

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