The British Telegraph: King Tutankhamun's mask a must-see tourist icon

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Fri, 19 Feb 2021 - 11:06 GMT

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File: Tutankhamun mask.

File: Tutankhamun mask.

 

 
 
 
  CAIRO - 19 February 2021: In Continuation to the series of articles and international reports on tourism in Egypt, the British telegraph published a report, showcasing the mask of the Boy King Tutankhamun as one of the tourist icons in the world to see during one’s lifetime.
 
  The report gave a detailed description of the mask, its design, and that it’s made of a layer of pure gold and precious and semi precious jewels.
 
 
It stated that it is one of the unique pieces that dazzled the world and increased the passion for the ancient Egyptian civilization.
 
  The report stated that the mask is displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, and it is scheduled to be transported with the rest of the king's treasures to the Grand Egyptian Museum.
 
  The report told the story of  the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922 by British archeologist Howard Carter, in the West Bank.
 
 The British Telegraph published two reports about Egypt, one was choosing Egypt as one of the best destinations of 2021 after the UK’s lockdown eases.
 
The second was about Nile cruises in Egypt, the article described them as one of the best cruise experiences in the world.
 
The newspaper introduced the treasures of the ancient Egyptian civilization and its natural tourism components in an impressive way.
 
Acclaimed Egyptian Egyptologist Zahi Hawass previously  revealed a number of important facts about the family of the Golden Pharaoh, announcing that his father is King Akhenaten and that the mummy of his mother is located at tomb number 35 where the grandmother of Tutankhamun, Tiye, was buried. 

 Hawass  added that Tutankhamen was suffering from lack of blood reaching the feet, flatfoot and malaria. 

Tutankhamun was born in the 18th Dynasty, around 1341 B.C., and was the 12th pharaoh of that period. 

Tutankhamun did not accomplish much himself; he was placed on the throne when he was a child, and Egypt’s prosperous era was beginning to decline with the rise of Pharaoh Akhenaten and his new cult. 

Sir Howard Carter, British archaeologist and Egyptologist, had made it his life’s quest to find the tomb of King Tutankhamun. 

When Carter had begun to work in Egypt in 1891, most of the documented Pharaohs had their tombs discovered. One, however, proved to be elusive; King Tutankhamun, whose resting place had yet to be found and who Egyptologists knew very little about. 

With the end of World War I, Carter made it his goal to be the first to uncover the tomb of Tutankhamun. Carter had worked in Egypt for 31 years since he was 17, using his skills as an artist to copy inscriptions from walls. 

He would then become appointed inspector-general of monuments in Upper Egypt. In 1907, he started to work for George Herbert, the fifth earl of Carnarvon, who would aid him in his quest to uncover the lost tomb of Tutankhamun. 

Carter was certainly dedicated, spending massive amounts of money and time in order to track down where the tomb might lie.
With Lord Carnarvon as his sponsor, he began working earnestly at excavating the Valley of Kings.

 

Alas, even after five years of work, Carter wasn’t able to report back on anything substantial. 

He refused to give up however, tirelessly working to fulfil his quest, and soon enough, Carter would be rewarded beyond his imagination. 

The discovery of steps beneath the sand on November 1, 1922 was a breakthrough for Carter. At long last, his tireless search for Tutankhamun would finally bear fruit.
Carter announced the discovery on November 6, and it took three weeks until he could begin work on excavating into the tomb. 

Workers exposed all of the steps and the sealed doorway into the tomb, which at one point had been broken in by tomb robbers but resealed again, leading to hope that the contents had not been plundered. 

Carter finally entered on November 25, finding evidence of resealed holes but noting that it had likely been thousands of years since anyone had entered again. 

When Carter made a hole inside the sealed door and peeked inside, he was left astounded. Gold flooded his senses, and animal statues, rich perfumes, piles of ebony, childhood toys and the Pharaoh himself adorned the room alongside countless other treasures. 

It was a bounty of riches the likes of which had never been seen before. Carter couldn’t have anticipated this finding in his wildest dreams.

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