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“Wonderful Things”

Tut wallsIn November, 1922, Carter began his final season working for Lord Carnavon in the Valley of the Kings by exposing the workmen’s huts at the base of the tomb of Rameses VI. By the fourth day of excavations of the ground beneath the huts. they discovered a step that cut into the rock. In a few days they had exposed 12 steps and a partial door with an intact seal. Carter stopped his work, refilled the steps, and contacted Lord Carnavon in England.

A few weeks later Carter exposed all of the sixteen steps and the full door which had Tut’s seals. They also saw where robbers had broken in and passed through the rubble-filled passage. They later discovered that this was a second break in with an earlier one shortly after Tut’s death. Items from the tomb were discovered under the rubble-filled 26-foot-long passage. At the end of the passage, a door was found that had been broken open. They feared that they would find nothing on the other side. Here’s Carter’s account of what they found:


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