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In the Valley of the
Kings from Egypt the British archeologist Howard Carter Lord
Carnarvon were the first people who entered in the tomb of
Tutankhamun after a period of 3.000 years. The rooms of the tomb
were surprisingly intact and inside of them was a collection of
thousands of rare objects, including a sarcophagus from gold
containing the mummy of the young pharaoh. King Tutankhamun went
to throne in 1333 BC when he was still a child. he died one
decade later, at 18 years old, and that` s why he wasn`t very
known in the history of the Egypt`s kings. In the XII century AD
the team who were building a tomb for Ramesses VI covered the
tomb of Tutankhamun with a very big plate, protecting it from
the future discoveries. On November 4, 1922, Carter found the a
stair leading to the tomb` s entrance. On November 23, Carter
and Carnarvon stepped through a mud and bricks discovering the
way they could go to the Tutankhamun`s tomb. There were proves
that robbers were in the tomb with along time ago and the
archeologists were afraid that they will discover another robbed
tomb. On November 26, the explorers went to the antechamber of
the tomb of Tutankhamun which was intact. The amazing collection
of objects found there included numerous gold jewelry, statues,
furniture, clothes, arms and many more object that brought reach
information about the culture of those times. The most important
discovery was a sarcophagus of stone containing other three
sarcophagi. In the last one, made from massive gold, was the
mummified body of the child-king Tutankhamun kept there for
3.200 years. The most of the object found in the tomb can be
seen at the Cairo Museum where they are kept. |
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