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Picture No 11988689
Date 1922
Description What the great find in Egypt may bring 1922
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What the great find in Egypt may bring: a 3000-year old pharaoh "coming forth into the day" with the contemporary garlands which adorned his mummy. A drawing imagining the scene witnessed by Egyptologist Dr Henry Hall of the British Museum when he assisted at the tomb excavation of a long-dead Egyptian king (unnamed), in anticipation of the opening of Tutankhamen's burial chamber early the following year (1923).
Source Drawing by Amedee Forestier, special artist in 'The Illustrated London News', 16 December 1922
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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