View of the antechamber of the Tomb of Tutankhamun looking west Size:L: 75 x 50cm Washington DC

Washington DC

the sitter in black jacket

Mending the Lesson

Hirst's observation of 'Venus seen with a narrow fringe of dull red light' during the transit of Venus

View of the antechamber of the Tomb of Tutankhamun looking west Size:L: 75 x 50cm Washington DCAntechamber of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, November 1922. View of the antechamber looking west. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter (1874 1939) was one of the most astounding discoveries in archaeology. Tutankhamun was a previously unknown pharaoh whose name had been eradicated from historical records by one of his successors because of his association with the heretical pharaoh