{"id":293574,"date":"2010-02-08T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-4815850613290849267"},"modified":"2010-02-08T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:00:41","slug":"feature-carnarvon-never-got-to-see-the-golden-death-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293574","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Carnarvon Never Got to See the Golden Death Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heritage-key.com\/blogs\/sean-williams\/discovering-tut-carnarvon-never-got-see-golden-death-mask?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hkdigest+%28Heritage+Key+Digest%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Heritage Key<\/a> (Sean Williams)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">When you think of King Tut, do you see a young boy, struggling with the enormity of his power; a slender adolescent in control of the world&#8217;s greatest empire? Of course not, because you&#8217;re like me: you see the magnificent death mask, the coffins, shrines, shabtis, daggers, beds, decrepit mummy (with or without penis) et al. We ancient world-lovers are just magpies with laptops really.<\/p>\n<p>But do you ever wonder why, when Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon burst into the tomb in 1922, they could see so many &#8216;wonderful things&#8217;? Why wasn&#8217;t Tutankhamun&#8217;s funerary procession made ancient swag, like those of nearly all of ancient Egypt&#8217;s kings?<\/p>\n<p>In fact even this isn&#8217;t strictly true, as Lady Carnarvon points out to us from the cellar-cum-Egyptian exhibition at Highclere Castle: &#8220;Howard Carter estimated that around 60 per cent of the jewellery which (sic) would have been in the tomb&#8230;was possibly stolen by grave diggers of ancient times.&#8221; Not a motto modern grave diggers will be thrilled about, but it does explain why the legs of the otherwise dazzling golden throne of King Tut are so bare.<\/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\/6760875-4815850613290849267?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Key (Sean Williams) When you think of King Tut, do you see a young boy, struggling with the enormity of his power; a slender adolescent in control of the world&#8217;s greatest empire? Of course not, because you&#8217;re like me: you see the magnificent death mask, the coffins, shrines, shabtis, daggers, beds, decrepit mummy (with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293574","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=293574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}