The complete Tutankhamun : the king, the tomb, the royal treasure 9780500051467, 0500051461
An account of the discovery of the tomb in the Valley of the Kings with diagrams, drawings, and reconstructions. Origina
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‘A story that opens like Aladdin’s Cave and ends like a Greek myth of Nemesis cannot fail to capture the imagination of all men and women. ...’ Lady Burghclere
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The Complete
Tutankhamun
The King: The Tomb: The Royal Treasure
by Nicholas Reeves Foreword by the Seventh Earl of Carnarvon
519 illustrations, 65 in colour
res Thames gs Hudson
For Claire, Kate, Elizabeth and Harnet
Contents
Foreword by the Seventh Earl of Carnarvon 7 Half-title: One of the four calcite stoppers (nos. 266c-f) from the king’s canopic chest. Frontispiece: Face of the solid-gold, innermost coffin (no. 255) which held the body of Tutankhamun.
Chronology and Family Relationships Introduction: Discovering Tutankhamun 11
A note on spellings Because the hieroglyphs preserve no more than the consonantal skeleton of the Egyptian language, the ancient pronunciation cannot usually be established. For this reason, Egyptian names exhibit a variety of modern spellings, and often based upon the Greek form rather than the Egyptian. ‘Tutankhamun’ is here employed as the preferred spelling, but
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Tutankhamun
Tut.ankh.Amen, Tutankhamen, Tut ‘ankh Amun,
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Tutankhamon, Tutenkhamon, Tutanchamun and Tutenchamun; these variants have been retained where appropriate in book titles and quotations.
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