King Tut's Stereotypes
On November 26, 1922, Howard Carter poked a hole in a sealed door and became the first person to enter the tomb of King Tut in 3,000 years. Tut’s tomb was special because it was the most complete tomb ever found. Grave robbers had disturbed other tombs scientists had discovered, but King Tut’s looked the way it did thousands of years ago, when it was sealed.
2The keeper of the archive of Carter’s excavation explained why finding the entire, untouched tomb was important. He said, “We can study how these objects were made, the materials and techniques that were used. . . . There is a great difference between looking at a representation of a chair on the wall of a tomb or a temple and being able to study that particular object in reality.”
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2The keeper of the archive of Carter’s excavation explained why finding the entire, untouched tomb was important. He said, “We can study how these objects were made, the materials and techniques that were used. . . . There is a great difference between looking at a representation of a chair on the wall of a tomb or a temple and being able to study that particular object in reality.”
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