Tutankamón

One hundred years ago, Howard Carter made one of the most amazing discoveries in the history of archaeology: he found, in the Valley of the Kings, an intact pharaonic tomb. This find unleashed a media storm around the world and a wave of legends that caused the true story of both the king and his tomb to be sunk into oblivion. For the first time, eminent Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley has assembled ten unique portraits: meeting the teenage pharaoh and his family, ancient embalmers and tomb robbers, famous explorers and forgotten Egyptian archaeologists. In this book, we embark on a journey that spans from ancient Thebes in 1336 B.C. C., when a young king with a mission to restore his land met an unexpected and violent end, until modern Luxor in 1922 AD. C., when the discovery of the tomb gave rise to a fight for its ownership that continues to this day. Above all, this is the story of Tutankhamen, as he would have wanted to be remembered. Gathering three thousand years of evidence and unraveling the legend surrounding Egypt's most famous king, this book offers a new story of his life, his death, and his legacy.