Thursday, March 19, 2009

Egypt Museum

On November 1, 1922, Carter began digging for his final season and three days later unearth the staircase to Tutankhamun's tomb. After excavation down to the plaster blocks of the tomb, at 4 PM on November 26, 1922, Howard Carter broke through and made one of the 20th century's most amazing discoveries. It would take another ten years just to catalog the artifacts from this one tomb, which are currently in the Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo, though they are scheduled to be moved in the near future.

There we saw gold, mummies, chariots, treasures, statues and just some of the 300,000 artifacts on exhibit.

As we entered these halls, Brendan immediately stopped us and said: I am having déjà vu – we been somewher like this before! And yes, indeed we had at the London museum two years earlier.
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