Word: tutankhamen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PRIVATE LIFE OF TUTANKHAMEN-G. R. Tabouis-McBride...
...Recently Tutankhamen, "handsomest of the Pharaohs," has enjoyed a glory, almost a fad, that is far more than his due. The wondrous relics found in his tomb far outshine the history of his political achievements. Mile. Tabouis, learned, impassioned, recites that history, conjures up its sociological, scientific and commercial background. But the illustrations in her book are only added testimony that this mighty man would be forgotten were it not for the glittering chrysalis of stone and metal in which he lived...
...silver; it had silver handles. The silver gleamed dully. Above, on the alabaster casket shone much gold- a dado, four seals and hasps. Explorer Carter's men inched up the lid, moved it most carefully to the floor. The box was open for the first time since TutankhAmen's priests made their incantations over it, since they set his soul on the path towards Amenti, the Region of the West where Osiris waited with his 42 judges to approve its virtue and permit its passage to the Egyptian Elysium, or condemn it to torment...
...east, falcon-headed Kebhsenuf for the west. They had no power to wither the modern hands which gripped the covers of the jars and twisted gently. Removal was not difficult for each cover had a knob on it. Craftsmen had carved the knobs into careful and duplicate images of TutankhAmen's head...
...delvers opened the small gold sarcophagi and found, as they knew they would find, that one had contained TutankhAmen's liver & gall bladder, another, his lungs & heart, another, his stomach & large intestine, the fourth his small intestine. They were the young king's last relics, removed at his mummification...