Egypt
Discovery Channel News (Rossella Lorenzi)
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- Hk's Discovering King Tut Part 5
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) With videos and an excellent photo of Lord and Lady Carnarvon on a visit to Egypt in 1921. The fifth and final instalment of Discovering King Tut has now been posted on Heritage Key. It signed off the fantastic videos series...
- Can Highclere Castle Be Saved?
Daily Mail Online The article is accompanied by lots of photographs of the building, which was home to the Earl of Carnarvon who funded Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun. Very sad indeed. My first experience of Highclere was when I worked for Vodafone...
- Tale Of Tutankhamun Treasures Recreated
Basingstoke Gazette (Chris Gregory) THE discovery of a famous Egyptian mummy is the focus of a dramatic new exhibition at Highclere Castle. The new display tells the story of how, in the 1920s, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon and archaeologist Howard Carter...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Exhbition Opens At Highclere
Newbury Today (Jane Meredith) A NEW Egyptian exhibition was unveiled at Highclere Castle yesterday. Invited guests had a preview of the Wonderful Things exhibition, which extends into a tunnel excavated by hand underneath the castle. Lord Carnarvon said:...
- Lord Carnarvon Returns To Egypt To Examine New Evidence About Tutankhamun
Newbury Today () A TELEVISION documentary will follow Lord Carnarvon’s travels back to Egypt to examine new finds from Tutankhamun’s tomb, which question long-held theories about the young pharoah. The eighth Lord Carnarvon, a keen amateur archaeologist,...
Egypt
Exhibition: Carnarvon, Highclere Castle, UK
Discovery Channel News (Rossella Lorenzi)
Lord Carnarvon, the man who funded the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and died five months later in mysterious circumstances before he could actually see the mummy's face, was a superstitious man who wore the same lucky bow tie all his life.
Such anecdotes are part of a unique exhibition at Highclere Castle, home of the Carnarvon family since the architect of London's Houses of Parliament built it in the 1840s.
Rising in the Berkshire countryside south of Newbury, England, the castle kept many secrets on its own. For more than 60 years, its walls concealed an important chapter of the King Tut search: a cache of Egyptian antiquities, excavated by George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon and his colleague and employee, Howard Carter in the years leading up to the discovery of the treasure-filled tomb.
"My grandfather was superstitious and did not want to talk about Egypt, so he took the Egyptian collection out of sight. It remained hidden away in a cupboard between two rooms down below the cellars for some 65 years. We found it after his death in 1987," George, the current earl -- the eighth -- told Discovery News.
See the above page for the full story.
- Hk's Discovering King Tut Part 5
Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) With videos and an excellent photo of Lord and Lady Carnarvon on a visit to Egypt in 1921. The fifth and final instalment of Discovering King Tut has now been posted on Heritage Key. It signed off the fantastic videos series...
- Can Highclere Castle Be Saved?
Daily Mail Online The article is accompanied by lots of photographs of the building, which was home to the Earl of Carnarvon who funded Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun. Very sad indeed. My first experience of Highclere was when I worked for Vodafone...
- Tale Of Tutankhamun Treasures Recreated
Basingstoke Gazette (Chris Gregory) THE discovery of a famous Egyptian mummy is the focus of a dramatic new exhibition at Highclere Castle. The new display tells the story of how, in the 1920s, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon and archaeologist Howard Carter...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Exhbition Opens At Highclere
Newbury Today (Jane Meredith) A NEW Egyptian exhibition was unveiled at Highclere Castle yesterday. Invited guests had a preview of the Wonderful Things exhibition, which extends into a tunnel excavated by hand underneath the castle. Lord Carnarvon said:...
- Lord Carnarvon Returns To Egypt To Examine New Evidence About Tutankhamun
Newbury Today () A TELEVISION documentary will follow Lord Carnarvon’s travels back to Egypt to examine new finds from Tutankhamun’s tomb, which question long-held theories about the young pharoah. The eighth Lord Carnarvon, a keen amateur archaeologist,...