Howard Carter's career was a remarkable one: he had arrived in Egypt 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 5th 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 Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings and Carter's painstaking clearance of the ...
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Howard Carter's career was a remarkable one: he had arrived in Egypt 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 5th 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 Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings and Carter's painstaking clearance of the intact royal burial that was 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 biography is both the story of a renowned archaeologist and of an essentially tragic human being.
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VG (edge-wear to wraps. rubbing to corners; creasing to lower corner. spine has numerous creases, yet remains tightly bound) Blue & gold illustrated wraps w/ multi-color printing. 513 pgs w/ bw illustrations. "A former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum and renowned archaeologist in his own right, James offers an account of Carter's quest for the ancient pharaoh and its culmination in his unearthing the intact treasure-filled tomb. The original hard-cover edition was published in 1992 by Kegan Paul International."--WorldCat.