EPILOGUEMost of what we know about the lives of the pharaohs and the nobles who were close to them comes from their tombs and mortuary temples. It is lucky for us who are curious about and fascinated by this magnificent and ancient civilization that they buried their possessions with them and wrote their autobiographies in enduring stone.
Tutankhamun’s tomb, found in AD 1922 by Howard Carter under the patronage of Lord Carnarvon, caused a great amount of excitement because it was one of the very few tombs from ancient Egypt discovered almost intact, with the royal body still present in its nest of priceless golden coffins. Nearly every other tomb had been picked clean by robbers long before we could get to it. The marvellous monuments of ancient Egypt have been quarried for building stone
