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    LIFE King Tut
    LIFE King Tut
    LIFE King Tut
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    LIFE King Tut

    By The Editors of LIFE

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    In 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered the mythological King Tutankhamun's Egyptian tomb and the many magnificent artifacts contained therein, and ever since, the world has clamored for a firsthand look. This ornately illustrated volume shares the real-time narrative of Carter's historic expedition in photographs - and much more.

    Highlights include:
    • The true story of King Tut, as told by today's historians

    • Photographs of the beautiful treasures uncovered from the tomb

    • A definitive guide to all the renditions of King Tut in movies and on TV
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLife
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781683302292
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      LIFE King Tut - The Editors of LIFE

      Creative

      INTRODUCTION

      WONDERFUL THINGS

      THE GENERAL PUBLIC WAS IN A STATE OF PROFOUND BOREDOM WITH NEWS OF REPARATIONS, CONFERENCES AND MANDATES, AND CRAVED FOR SOME NEW TOPIC… THE IDEA OF BURIED TREASURE IS ONE THAT APPEALS TO MOST OF US.

      — HOWARD CARTER, ARCHAEOLOGIST, EXPLAINING THE MANIA SPARKED

      BY HIS DISCOVERY OF KING TUT’S TOMB IN 1922

      HULTON-DEUTSCH/CORBIS

      IN 1922, CARTER discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, a 3,000-year-old royal burial site that had been largely untouched and filled with ancient treasures belonging to the young king. Past the passageway and antechamber, Carter and his team located the burial chamber, which contained Tut’s mummy. Here, Carter (kneeling), British archaeologist Arthur Callender, and an Egyptian workman, peer through the open doors of the gilded shrines. The mummy was laid to rest within four nested shrines, a quartzite sarcophagus, and three coffins.

      Some fascinations are truly eternal. Such is the case with the story of King Tut, a tale that continues to be told, and retold, with new insight and wonder throughout the modern age.

      At the time of the tomb’s unearthing, the world that Howard Carter was reflecting on in his book with A.C. Mace, The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen, was just four years removed from the end of World War I. One out of every 10 people in the U.S. finally owned a car, the latest breakthrough in medicine was the invention of insulin by Sir Frederick Grant Banting, and over the next decade—the amount of time it took Carter and his team to remove and catalog the contents of their dig—the world would become home to self-winding watches, frozen foods, traffic signals, Technicolor movies, electric shavers, jet engines, and television. Yet none of those modern advancements would expunge from the pages of popular history a 3,000-year-old Egyptian king who by all accounts led a life of minimal accomplishment punctuated by early death.

      From the Roaring ’20s straight through to the present day, each new generation has sparked to the same core elements of the Tut story: an ancient and advanced civilization, a young ruler, a mysterious death, and gold—lots of gold—gilding every corner of his buried legacy. As the times changed, so did the interpretations and manifestations of Tutankhamun’s popularity. From fashion and art to touring exhibits and Top 40 radio, folktales to high-tech forensics, Tut’s story has not only endured, it’s been constantly updated to remain forever modern.

      As a chronicle of popular culture and history, LIFE reflected on the fascination. The boy king’s first cover photo came on April 5, 1968 (billed, appropriately enough, with a review of a fantastic movie about man’s future called 2001: A Space Odyssey). The story inside was actually the first in a series that explored the marvels of ancient Egypt—marvels that arguably wouldn’t have been nearly as relevant to LIFE’s audience of more than 8 million readers were it not for Carter’s discovery of the most intact tomb in ancient Egyptian history, and the hoopla that followed.

      When Carter first focused his eyes on the contents of Tut’s tomb by the flicker of candlelight, he was asked by his benefactor George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, who was standing behind him,

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