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).
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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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