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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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other versions of the king’s name exist — including

Tutankhamun

Tut.ankh.Amen, Tutankhamen, Tut ‘ankh Amun,

and His Time

Tutankhamon, Tutenkhamon, Tutanchamun and Tutenchamun; these variants have been retained where appropriate in book titles and quotations.

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