{"id":254906,"date":"2010-01-31T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-4367926995118571554"},"modified":"2010-01-31T09:19:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T14:19:44","slug":"feature-i-discovered-pharaohs-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/254906","title":{"rendered":"Feature:  I discovered pharaoh&#8217;s gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2010\/jan\/30\/i-discovered-pharaoh-gold\">The Guardian, UK<\/a> (Paul Sussman)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1972, when I was six, my aunt took me to see the T\u00adutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum. I&#8217;ve been hooked on Egypt and archaeology ever since \u2013 I spent most of my childhood looking for tombs in our garden in Watford.<\/p>\n<p>Although I make my living as a writer and hold no formal \u00adarchaeological qualification, I have worked on digs whenever I can and learned on the job. The one I&#8217;ll \u00adalways \u00adremember took place more than 10 years ago, working as a field \u00adarchaeologist and diarist with a team digging in the Valley of the Kings.<\/p>\n<p>I was part of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project and we spent four years excavating in the valley, around the tombs of T\u00adutankhamun and Ramesses VI. As well as \u00addigging new ground, we were given \u00adpermission to re-excavate a small existing tomb, KV56. I was in charge of this re-excavation.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered in 1908 by English archaeologist Edward Ayrton, KV56 had yielded one of the most \u00adspectacular arrays of \u00adjewellery found in the valley, hence its \u00adnickname: the Gold Tomb.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-4367926995118571554?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian, UK (Paul Sussman) In 1972, when I was six, my aunt took me to see the T\u00adutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum. I&#8217;ve been hooked on Egypt and archaeology ever since \u2013 I spent most of my childhood looking for tombs in our garden in Watford. Although I make my living as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}