How the excavation of Tutankhamen was reported by

The Illustrated London News 1924 - Jan 12th

tut notice

72. A special notice to our readers about the sole rights to colour images

 

Tut gold carving

73. Tutankhamen art in colour: An exclusive reproduction
"In gold work, ivory and crystalline limestone, inlaid with
polychrome faience, glass and stone": The head of the household
god BES, from a royal chariot autochrome

(there was a monochrome photograph of this in Dec 29th 1923)

 

A pharaohs state coach

74. A Pharaoh's "state coach": One of Tutankhamen's chariots

 

tut the roal barges

75. A Pharaoh's royal barges: Models of Nile craft of 3000 years ago

 

 

Gold chariot panels 1

76. Tutankhamen's regal splendour: Panels of his gold chariot

 

panels of his gold chariot 2

 

77. "How Tutankhamen " Drove through the streets of Thebes in a blaze of dazzling light"
A gold panel from his state chariot, embossed with figures of African and Asiatic captives
A continuation of the panel above

 

seal of the sarcophagus

78. Found to contain a magnificent intact sarcophagus:

 

shrine and sepulchre

79. Tutankhamen's golden shrine in it's painted sepulchre

 

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