| Description |
513 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Early years -- 2. Egypt: the beginnings -- 3. Consolidation and diversification -- 4. Chief Inspector -- 5. The Saqqara affair -- 6. Crisis and resolution -- 7. Five years' explorations at Thebes -- 8. Royal tombs and the Great War -- 9. The Valley of the Kings and discovery -- 10. The Antechamber -- 11. The Burial Chamber and death -- 12. The spirit of mischief -- 13. America and improving prospects -- 14. The royal body, with reverence -- 15. A long and steady plod -- 16. Non-fulfilment and decline -- App. I. Letter from M. Jouveau to M. Maspero -- App. II. The Earl of Carnarvon's permit to excavate -- App. III. The Earl of Carnarvon's account of the opening -- App. IV. The Times agreement |
| Summary |
"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 without a reliable account of the man behind the discovery and the myths that have surrounded it." |
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"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 fifth Earl of Carnarvon developed, in which the young Carter acted as assistant and 'learned man' to the aristocrat's excavations in the Theban necropolis. But it was the legendary discovery of the Valley of the Kings and Carter's painstaking clearance of the intact royal burial that were 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. T. G. H. James' definitive biography is both the story of perhaps the most renowned archaeologist of all time and of essentially a tragic human being."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-494) and index |
| Subject |
Carter, Howard, 1874-1939.
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Egyptologists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2001271661 |
| ISBN |
1860646158 |
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