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Harry Brunton photographs to visit M.H. de Young Museum

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On view at the de Young Museum at the same time as Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs will be Opening Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Harry Burton Photographs. The 38 prints illustrate archaeologist Howard Carter's excavation of the pharaoh's burial place in the Valley of the Kings.

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