Egypt
Basingstoke Gazette (Chris Gregory)
- 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...
- 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...
- 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:...
- 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
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 found the mummified body of the pharaoh Tutankhamun in a long-lost tomb in Egypt.
The boy pharaoh reigned between 1336BC and 1327BC and was buried with fabulous treasures and supposedly protected with a curse.
The Wonderful Things exhibition – two years in the making and created by the current Earl of Carnarvon and his wife Fiona – traces the steps taken by his ancestor to find the ancient tomb.
It was in November 1922 that Carter and the fifth Earl made their discovery in Luxor after the tomb had remained hidden from the outside world for more than 3,000 years.
The current earl – the eighth – lives at Highclere, like his famous forebear. He told The Gazette: “I’m delighted and very excited about the exhibition. I hope that it’s liked by the people who visit.
“I think we have given people an incredible flavour of ancient Egypt, a little of the art and of the excitement of the find for my great-grandfather and Howard Carter.”
He said the show would help with the upkeep of the Grade I-listed castle.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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:...
- 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,...