Tutankhamun's tomb discovery amazing pictures

Tutankhamun’s tomb discovery amazing pictures #minidocumentary

In this video, I will present the pictures taken at the time of the great discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb 100 years ago, in 1922. We are celebrating this month 100 years of this discovery and we are all grateful to be able to understand how ancient Egyptians lived more than 3000 years ago due to this discovery.

Harry Burton’s photographs capturing Tutankhamun’s tomb at the moment of its discovery have amazed the world for generations. These images were first featured in the exhibition ‘The Discovery of King Tut’, New York, from November 2015 to May 2016. When Howard Carter discovered and entered the tomb he stated he saw “Wonderful things” and Harry Burton helped him to sort and take pictures of the entire artifacts inventory making a priceless album that gives us amazing information about this real time capsule called Tutankhamun burial site.

The Harry Burton pictures depict items from the burial site such as furniture, chests, jewelry, a belt, his trumpets, a headrest many canes with amazing handles, some of them showing Nubian heads.

We also see some of Tutankhamun’s sandals, one of them showing signs of wearing, most likely from the real king Tut which is amazing.

One can see in the Antechamber room the sentinel statues guarding the entrance to the burial room.

One can see many Objects, including the cow-headed couch and boxes containing joints of meat piled up against the west wall of the Antechamber. He had many storage boxes for food required for the transition to the afterlife.

We see the Sealed alabaster vases between the cow-headed and lion couches against the west wall of the Antechamber. They were used for creams.

Then we have the Disassembled chariots and cow-headed couches at the southern end of the Antechamber.

We see Objects stacked under the lion couch against the west wall of the Antechamber including an ivory and ebony chest, black ‘shrine-shaped boxes’, and a child’s chair made of ebony.

Howard Carter (on the left) and Lord Carnarvon together in the tomb; they stand in the partially dismantled doorway between the Antechamber and the Burial Chamber.

Sethos II’s Tomb was used as a laboratory to create the inventory of the items that King Tut was taking with him in the afterlife.

Howard Carter (kneeling), and an Egyptian workman in the Burial Chamber, looking through the open doors of the four gilded shrines towards the sarcophagus.

Carter and an Egyptian workman examine the third (innermost) coffin, inside the case of the second coffin.

The two ka statues of Tutankhamun often referred to as the “guardian statues”, stand sentinel on either side of the Burial chamber’s doorway, with some of the door’s blocking still in place.

Moving objects from Tutankhamun’s tomb, from the Valley of the Kings to the Nile bank.

Many people ask themselves what the significance of the baboons painted on his burial site walls is. The twelve squatting baboons are welcoming the pharaoh and represent the twelve hours of the night that Tutankhamun must pass in his transit to the Hereafter.

The ancient Egyptians believed that the pharaoh had to make this journey to reach eternity.

Howard Carter was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

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