Howard Carter before Tutankhamun

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The discovery ofthe tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 was the culmination of Howard Carter's thirty-year obsession with ancient Egypt. Dr Reeves uses Carter's own words and those of his contemporaries in letters, diaries and memoirs to follow his career from his first visit to Egypt at the age of seventeen as an artist with the Egypt Exploration Fund and assistant to Flinders Petrie to an important job with the Egyptian Antiquities Service supervising excavations in the Valley of the Kings and other sites. As his letters show, Carter was a solitary and difficult personality and a peppery individual. He nonetheless displayed outstanding talent as an artist, organiser, excavator and connoisseur.
In 1905 a fracas with druhken French tourists brought his official career to an abrupt end, but two years later he began his fruitful association with Lord Carnarvon which led finally to the unearthing of the richest royal tomb in Egypt.
Rarely has the life of an archaeologist been so well... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The discovery ofthe tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 was the culmination of Howard Carter's thirty-year obsession with ancient Egypt. Dr Reeves uses Carter's own words and those of his contemporaries in letters, diaries and memoirs to follow his career from his first visit to Egypt at the age of seventeen as an artist with the Egypt Exploration Fund and assistant to Flinders Petrie to an important job with the Egyptian Antiquities Service supervising excavations in the Valley of the Kings and other sites. As his letters show, Carter was a solitary and difficult personality and a peppery individual. He nonetheless displayed outstanding talent as an artist, organiser, excavator and connoisseur.
In 1905 a fracas with druhken French tourists brought his official career to an abrupt end, but two years later he began his fruitful association with Lord Carnarvon which led finally to the unearthing of the richest royal tomb in Egypt.
Rarely has the life of an archaeologist been so well documented. Apart from the vivid, uncompromising letters and diaries there have survived Carter's own water-colours, excavation photographs, the objects he kept for his personal collection and a wealth of Egyptian treasures now in museums all over the world. Much of this material is illustrated here, bringing to life the most colourful adventurer in the story of Egyptian archaeology.
Nicholas Reeves has worked as a curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, and is honorary curator of the Egyptian collection at Highclere Castle, family home of the Earl of Carnarvon. He is author of Valley of the Kings: the decline of a royal necropolis and The Complete Tutankhamun. John H. Taylor is a curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum. He is the author of Egypt and Nubia and Egyptian Coffins.
With 70 colour and 120 black-and-white illustrations. Vissza