“EIGHTY-SIX YEARS EARLIER, the renowned British archaeologist Howard Carter broke into these same stone chambers, poking his candle into the darkness to uncover his glimpse of what he called the “wonderful things” inside. Other pharaohs’ tombs had been discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, but they were empty, looted centuries earlier, their occupants rewrapped and moved elsewhere. Tutankhamun’s tomb, though, was untouched. Hidden beneath flood debris for three millennia, its sumptuous contents were intact: jewellery, vases, thrones, even chariots. It was the most spectacular archaeological discovery of all time.”
Tutankhamun's Blood chronicles the journey of scientific researches conducted on the most famous, and legendary, Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Through its discoveries and myths, toward genetic identification technology breakthrough, Jo Marchant takes us into the deep-layered and intricate story about the impact Tutankhamun has brought upon the world and the role it plays in the middle of Egypt Revolution.
“EIGHTY-SIX YEARS EARLIER, the renowned British archaeologist Howard Carter broke into these same stone chambers, poking his candle into the darkness to uncover his glimpse of what he called the “wonderful things” inside. Other pharaohs’ tombs had been discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, but they were empty, looted centuries earlier, their occupants rewrapped and moved elsewhere. Tutankhamun’s tomb, though, was untouched. Hidden beneath flood debris for three millennia, its sumptuous contents were intact: jewellery, vases, thrones, even chariots. It was the most spectacular archaeological discovery of all time.”
Tutankhamun's Blood chronicles the journey of scientific researches conducted on the most famous, and legendary, Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Through its discoveries and myths, toward genetic identification technology breakthrough, Jo Marchant takes us into the deep-layered and intricate story about the impact Tutankhamun has brought upon the world and the role it plays in the middle of Egypt Revolution.