Howard Carter, the man who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922 has been examined in Sharon Janet Hague's new book "The Tutankhamen Friendship"
If judging a book by its cover is anything to go by, yup, this one should be good! and it is! Sharon recently published her Novel "Moses and Akhenaten" followed by a foreword in my book "Egypt Through The Ages" - now she has an incredible new story to tell. The life of a 1900's Egyptologist, a British Aristocrat and a Pharaoh cross paths and lead to the worlds biggest ancient discovery and one of the most famous friendships between Howard Carter and his patron
Lord Carnarvon.
Whatever might be said about Carter and Carnarvon the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb was facilitated through one thing alone - an extraordinary friendship. The book opens with a fictional introduction based on a real occurrence. Pursued by snakes, Howard Carter and the fifth earl of Carnarvon topple through cabbages onto a dusty road where they declare that digging in the Delta is not for them. The book then follows the famous duo from childhood to adulthood and their spectacular discovery in the Valley of the Kings. Divided into five parts it begins with the childhood of Carnarvon and Carter and moves through the phases of their lives which include some of the most famous names in archaeology.
The discovery of Tutankhamen in 1922 sparked a phenomenon of public interest in ancient Egypt. The achievement of the artist and the playboy, Carter and Carnarvon, who did the unthinkable by pipping academics to the post, remains one of the most dazzling feats of archaeology, on par with the conquest of Everest, or landing on the moon. It is a tale which reveals how the uneducated Carter's patronage under a series of gentlemen and world-class scholars prepared him for his work in a way no formal education could have possibly done. The empathy between the earl and the commoner allowed history's only intact royal tomb to be cleared by a group of international experts using technology light years ahead of their time. It was a world event where the barriers of class, culture and education dissolved to restore a page of history to mankind.
Sharon's writing is exceptional as always, and this new release gives us a more human insight into Carter, and allows us to imagine his emotion, trials and tribulations like we haven't before.
The book is for sale in many stores & online,
but you can order a copy now from amazon: https://amzn.to/36u4W6A
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