Inspected Valley - tomb, laboratory and magazine - found everything Prevent any encroachment of copyright in the way of sale on their part Supplied at least a mail later than the European papers - this to To him and we would then discuss it privately. Ripe for such procedure I would put my proposal in concrete form He accepted my suggestion that when the time was To this he seemed to agree providing it would in no way raiseĪny question of private monopoly or cause trouble in any way with Illustrated papers over and above the Bulletin per the Press Bureau. I also mentionedĪ matter of issuing photos to Erop European & Egyptian Their Ex's the Ministers inspecting the mummy after the scientificĮxamination - I mentioned this point "after the scientific examination"Īs the procedure might take several days and we could hardlyĮxpect their Ex's to be present the whole time. I recounted to him my programme for this season's work,Įspecially that of the examination of the royal mummy to take place It seems a shameĪfter all the trouble in preserving those precious objectsĪnd safely transporting them to the Museum, that they shouldīe allowed to be handled by persons that do not knowĪrranged for motor car to be sent to Luxor on Monday (5th).ġ1am. This, I was told, wasĭone by one of the European officials when showing it To the gold stick), now exhibited flat, in one of the glass I was horrified to find that the silver stick (fellow I think possibly there is a tendency of the throneĭarkening a little and we decided that late next spring we would treat it with wax which ought not only toīrighten it up, but also help to make a permanent In the Museum, from the point of view of preservation. He had not yet receivedĪ reply to his cable to M. Lucas to come up either with me on Tuesday (6th) or the followingĬalled upon Bedawi Pasha at the P.W.D. Objection to Edgar representing him during the examination. Work, to cable Lacau and ask him if he had any As he would not be back from leaveīefore November, I asked Edgar, so as not to delay the The Ministers would like inspect the royal remains. I should delay rewrapping the mummy until I knew whether Should be carried out as quietly and conveniently as possible, but that Mentioning that the arrangement was for it to take place Season's work (1925-26), and the necessity of making theĮxamination of the royal mummy as early as possible, I also conveyed to him my programme for this Arranged with himįor the electric light at the tombs of the Kings to start from The transcript, these are magnified by positioning the pointer on the image. Scans of the original journal pages are provided and are positioned to the right of This transcript follows the format of the original document, and any insertions, deletions or duplicationsĪre indicated accordingly. and contains 111 loose-leaf unruled pages. The inside front cover, it measures 34 by 24 by 1 cm. The journal is housed within its original black ring-binder, stamped "Walker's Loose-Leaf Book, Cover Number 138" on Of Tutankhamun and first mention of the King's gold mask (October 28th 1925), and the unwrapping and examination of Tutankhamun's mummy (October 13th 1925) and middle coffins (October 23rd 1925), unveiling the innermost coffinĪnd discovering it was made of solid gold (October 24th 1925), the raising of the lid of the innermost coffin, revealing the wrapped mummy The events covered by this journal are the removal of the lids of the outermost Which took place between Autumn 1925 and Spring 1926. This is Howard Carter's journal for the 4th excavation season of the tomb of Tutankhamun Excavation journals and diaries made by Howard Carter and Arthur Mace Howard Carter's excavation diaries (transcripts and scans) 4th Season, September 28th 1925 to May 21st 1926
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