: How Tutankhamun became a popular spirit at seances in the 1920s #IndiaNEWS It has been 100 years since the discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled in the 14th

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How Tutankhamun became a popular spirit at seances in the 1920s #IndiaNEWS
It has been 100 years since the discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, the boy king who ruled in the 14th century BC. Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in November 1922 by a team of predominantly Egyptian excavators led by the British archaeologist Howard Carter.Carter’s published account has dominated public understanding of this historic find. His three-volume publication The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen is responsible for immortalising his purported response to his patron, Lord Carnarvon’s question: “Can you see anything?� To which he responded, “Yes, wonderful things.� It also made famous the image of “everywhere the glint of gold� as he first peered into the tomb.There was a lot of interest in the discovery at the time, which led to a slew of newspaper coverage. One story that constantly re-emerged, and remain popular, concerns the story of a mummy’s curse plaguing those involved in the excavations – though the notion that those present at the tomb’s opening met untimely ends has been thoroughly debunked.There are other stories and legends about the discovery, the subsequent excavations and their legacies, all of which contribute to a fuller understanding of the sheer and wide-ranging impact of this event.One such little-known cultural consequence was how the pharaoh started to regular emerge in...Read more

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