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Title: King Tuts Tomb'


1
King Tuts Tomb.
2
The Tomb is Found
  • Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon invested money.
  • 31 years before King Tuts tomb discovered.
  • Door was exposed and broken into by tomb robbers.

3
Tomb Robbers
  • November 25, 1922 Sealed door was photographed
    and seals noted.
  • First time robbed hole was filled with darker and
    larger rocks.
  • Second time dug through the fill and escaped with
    small items.

4
Burial Chamber
  • Large Shrine over 16 feet long, 10 feet wide, and
    9 feet tall.
  • Walls made of gilded wood and inlaid blue
    porcelain.
  • Walls painted with funerary scenes.

5
Tuts Coffin
  • Wooden Coffin, Human shaped, 7 feet 4 inches in
    length.
  • Third coffin made entirely of gold
  • Mummy found with liquid from head to toe.
  • 3,300 years since royal Egyptian mummy had been
    found untouched.

6
Tuts Curse
  • They who enter this sacred tomb shall swift be
    visited by the wings of death.
  • Lord Carnarvon Died at 57
  • Howard Carter Died at 65

7
Credits
  • lthttp//history1900s.about.com/ibrary/weekly/aa101
    200a.htm
  • lthttp//homepage.powerup.com.au/ancient/curse/htm
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