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Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun

Door T.G.H. James

Categorie
Het oude Egypte
Boeknummer
#360735-VF49
Titel
Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun
Auteur
James, T.G.H.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Tauris Parks Paperbacks
Jaar van uitgave
2006
ISBN10
184511258X
ISBN13
9781845112585
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, b/w illustrations (including photographs), 8vo.
Samenvatting
In November 1922, a momentous discovery - unlike any other before or since - was to change our understanding of the ancient world. Until now however, the marvellous story of Carter's quest for Tutankhamun and its culmination in his unearthing of the intact, treasure-filled tomb has been told without a reliable account of the man behind the discovery and the myths that have surrounded it. Howard Carter's career was a remarkable one: he had arrived in Egypt 30 years earlier as a 17-year old 'tracer' with rudimentary education, and progressed to become the first Chief Inspector of Antiquities in Upper Egypt. An improbable but auspicious partnership with the 5th Earl of Carnarvon developed in which the young Carter acted as assistant and 'learned man' to the aristocrat's excavations in the The... (Lees verder)ban necropolis. But, it was the legendary discovery in the Valley of the Kings and Carter's painstaking clearance of the intact royal burial that was to secure his place in history. He became an international celebrity, simultaneously honoured and vilified wherever he went, but he was also a sad, disillusioned man whose success never brought any reward of happiness. TGH James' definitive biography is both the story of perhaps the most renowned archaeologist of all time and of an essentially tragic human being.
Pagina's
513
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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