Tutankhamun's trumpets items stolen from the Cairo museum during the Egyptian looting and riots of 2011, mysteriously returned to the museum some weeks later. Tutankhamun's trumpets Tutankhamun's trumpets are a pair of trumpets found in the burial chamber of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The trumpets, one of sterling silver and one of bronze or copper, are considered to be the oldest operational trumpets in the world, and the only known surviving examples from ancient Egypt. The trumpets were found in 1922 by Howard Carter during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb. The bronze trumpet was discovered in the tomb's antechamber in a
Lefkaritis Tomb address where the tomb was unearthed, is Vasileos Konstantinou 27. Among the "few objects found", were "Extraordinary gold ornaments", which were moved to Cyprus Museum for conservation. The tomb was discovered in the vicinity of the residence of Dino Lefkaritis (a known businessman in the petroleum industry), hence the name "Lefkaritis Tomb". Lefkaritis Tomb The Lefkaritis Tomb is a hypogeum—a type of tomb—in Larnaca, Cyprus. It was discovered in 1998 in an "un-looted chamber that had been sealed nearly 2800 years ago" in the city-kingdom of Kition. (This tomb was found within the city walls of Kition, as opposed to