Egypt has among the longest histories of any modern country, Emerging as one of the world’s first nation states in the tenth millennium BC. Considered the biggest developmental place in the world, Ancient Egypt experienced some of the most innovative things of the future such as writing, agriculture, urbanization, organized religion and central government. They have many iconic monuments such as the Giza Necropolis, Great Sphinx, and the one I have looked into the most the Valley of Kings. These different locations really reflect the legacy that still stands as a significant and popular interest worldwide thousands of years after they were first occupied.
Being one of the earliest centres of Christianity, Egypt was Islamized in the seventh …show more content…
If only he would have realized that he had already found three clues that could have helped him in the adventure. The first clue came in his 1905-1906 excavation season the “found a simple faience cup ‘under the rock’.” (Tyldesley, 2012). This had King Tut’s name on it and it is believed that this was drop after someone raided the tomb after his death. The second clue came on December twenty-first 1907 when they discovered a jar inside the stone-lined pit in KV54. They open this up and it had stuff written on stone tablets with the king’s name and it also talked about the miniature gold mummy mask. In 1909 the team discovered the ‘Chariot Tomb’ which was a small undecorated chamber. This chamber had a chariot harness inscribed with the names of Tutankhamen and his successor Ay, whose name is given both as a commoner and a king. They believe this was not his first burial but a …show more content…
One of Davis’s excavation partners by the name of Howard Carter realized that the Chariot Tomb was not a tomb, royal or otherwise, but it was a storage chamber. He believed that King Tut still lay in the valley of kings waiting to be found. Carter’s career had seen a meteoric rise and a sudden, catastrophic fall. In the 1890’s, he traveled from Norfolk, England, to work with a guy by the name of Percy Newberry where he got his name out. “In 1899 Carter was appointed Chief Inspector of Antiquities for southern Egypt”. (Tlydesley, 2012). Here he built doors to help protect tombs as well as put lights inside the tombs for visitors. The biggest thing he did was building a donkey park for all of the tourist. His name really changed on November 4, 1922 when his workmen, led by a highly experienced foreman Reis Ahmed Gerigar, cleared away rubbish near King Ramses VI Tombs, and they hit the first flight of sixteen stone steps leading to King Tut’s tomb. Throughout their journey they found lots of places in which seemed to be the right entrance but then they were blocked off and there was no way to get in. They search for about a month until on November 26, 1922, Carter and fellow archaeologist Lord Carnarvon entered the interior chambers of the tomb, finding the miraculously intact. This started a monumental excavation process
Being one of the earliest centres of Christianity, Egypt was Islamized in the seventh …show more content…
If only he would have realized that he had already found three clues that could have helped him in the adventure. The first clue came in his 1905-1906 excavation season the “found a simple faience cup ‘under the rock’.” (Tyldesley, 2012). This had King Tut’s name on it and it is believed that this was drop after someone raided the tomb after his death. The second clue came on December twenty-first 1907 when they discovered a jar inside the stone-lined pit in KV54. They open this up and it had stuff written on stone tablets with the king’s name and it also talked about the miniature gold mummy mask. In 1909 the team discovered the ‘Chariot Tomb’ which was a small undecorated chamber. This chamber had a chariot harness inscribed with the names of Tutankhamen and his successor Ay, whose name is given both as a commoner and a king. They believe this was not his first burial but a …show more content…
One of Davis’s excavation partners by the name of Howard Carter realized that the Chariot Tomb was not a tomb, royal or otherwise, but it was a storage chamber. He believed that King Tut still lay in the valley of kings waiting to be found. Carter’s career had seen a meteoric rise and a sudden, catastrophic fall. In the 1890’s, he traveled from Norfolk, England, to work with a guy by the name of Percy Newberry where he got his name out. “In 1899 Carter was appointed Chief Inspector of Antiquities for southern Egypt”. (Tlydesley, 2012). Here he built doors to help protect tombs as well as put lights inside the tombs for visitors. The biggest thing he did was building a donkey park for all of the tourist. His name really changed on November 4, 1922 when his workmen, led by a highly experienced foreman Reis Ahmed Gerigar, cleared away rubbish near King Ramses VI Tombs, and they hit the first flight of sixteen stone steps leading to King Tut’s tomb. Throughout their journey they found lots of places in which seemed to be the right entrance but then they were blocked off and there was no way to get in. They search for about a month until on November 26, 1922, Carter and fellow archaeologist Lord Carnarvon entered the interior chambers of the tomb, finding the miraculously intact. This started a monumental excavation process