Egypt
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass)
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Metropolitan Returns Tutankhamun Objects
It has long been known about objects being in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which came to the museum via Howard Carter and his associates as well as other museums. Mr. Carter appears to have created a collection of pocket sized objects from...
Egypt
Lord Carnarvon's collection
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass)
It is sometimes best to start at the end of a Hawass article to get to the point, and this is very much the case in this piece. It begins as an apparently straight forward account of Lord Carnarvon's role in the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, but ends with the remark that Egypt is now taking on the Carnarvon family to acquire items removed from Egypt by Carnarvon some of which are now kept at the Carnarvon family home at Highclere Castle. Hawass beleives that the Carnarvon family will be unable to prove that the items under dispute were taken legally. Hawass does not make it clear whether his organization will also be chasing the items on loan at Newbury Museum and the British Museum in the UK and sold to the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Carnarvon, the man who financed the Tutankhamen tomb excavation. Lord Carnarvon travelled to Egypt for the first time in 1898, following Victor Loret’s discovery of a second crypt to the tomb of King Amenhotep II, in the Valley of the Kings, which was known as tomb KV35. The side chamber was found hidden behind one of the tomb's walls, and this discovery was both a unique and significant event. The fact that 13 mummies were discovered in this tomb, the majority of whom were royalty, is a clear indication that there are a lot of puzzles and secrets surrounding the Pharaohs which archaeologists are determined to solve.
Lord Carnarvon began to spend much of the winter in Egypt since 1906, after physicians advised him to avoid humid weather and live in a dry climate. Egypt was therefore ideal for him, and during his stay he managed to obtain a permit to search for, and excavate, Egyptian antiquities. During the 16 years he spent in Egypt, the majority of the excavations financed by Lord Carnarvon were based in Luxor, the Valley of the Kings, and the Tombs of the Nobles. Lord Carnarvon was known for holding on to the pieces he discovered, as well as purchasing antiquities on the market.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Metropolitan Returns Tutankhamun Objects
It has long been known about objects being in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which came to the museum via Howard Carter and his associates as well as other museums. Mr. Carter appears to have created a collection of pocket sized objects from...