Egypt
Newbury Today (Jane Meredith)
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- Feature: Tutankhamun's Tomb - House Of Gold
Heritage Key (Sean Williams) With video. "In most Egyptian tombs you've either got the wall paintings or the coffin." Fiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon says, stressing the uniqueness of Tutankhamun's tomb, the greatest discovery in history. Its...
- 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...
- Pea From Tomb Of Tutankhamun Saved From Extinction
Newbury Today A pea, thought to be from the gardens at Highclere Castle, and originating from the tomb of Tutankhamun, has been saved from extinction. Known as the Tutankhamun pea, the rare variety is thought to be from the gardens of the Carnarvon estate,...
- Hawass Asks For Carnarvon Artefacts To Be Returned
Times Online Egypt’s most prominent archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, called yesterday on the descendants of the British aristocrat who found Tutankhamun’s tomb to return the remnants of his collection to Cairo. Dr Hawass insisted that many of the objects...
- 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: 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: “You feel as if you are in the Cairo Museum. We wanted to create our own version.”
The exhibits include 3,500 year old artefacts and reproductions of items uncovered by archaeologist Howard Carter, whose discover of the Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 was funded by the present Earl's great-grandfather.
Among the treasures on display are an Egyptian vase discovered behind a garden gnome in the castle 20 years ago, a 3000-year-old calcite jar, a black granite statue of the Egyptian god Amun-Re and his consort Mut, and an Egyptian coffin given to West Berkshire museum in 1911 by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon. The exhbition also includes photographs and cuttings from the Newbury Weekly News' archives.
Also included is a reproduction of Tutankhamun's golden throne, model boats and the young Pharaoh's mummified remains, alongside original film of the discovery.
Visitors can peek through letter box flaps to view a recreation of his tomb, full of glittering treasures, to get an idea of Carter's exhilaration at discovering the tomb.
Paintings that lined the walls of the tomb have been painstakingly reproduced by Ashmansworth artist Eleanor Fane.
See the above page for the full story.
- Feature: Tutankhamun's Tomb - House Of Gold
Heritage Key (Sean Williams) With video. "In most Egyptian tombs you've either got the wall paintings or the coffin." Fiona, 8th Countess of Carnarvon says, stressing the uniqueness of Tutankhamun's tomb, the greatest discovery in history. Its...
- 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...
- Pea From Tomb Of Tutankhamun Saved From Extinction
Newbury Today A pea, thought to be from the gardens at Highclere Castle, and originating from the tomb of Tutankhamun, has been saved from extinction. Known as the Tutankhamun pea, the rare variety is thought to be from the gardens of the Carnarvon estate,...
- Hawass Asks For Carnarvon Artefacts To Be Returned
Times Online Egypt’s most prominent archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, called yesterday on the descendants of the British aristocrat who found Tutankhamun’s tomb to return the remnants of his collection to Cairo. Dr Hawass insisted that many of the objects...
- 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,...