November 4th...Howard Carter and King Tutankhamun

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 89. This time we examine the year 1922 as Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and a team of excavators discovered King Tut’s Tomb.

 

Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

  

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

 

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/newest-king-tut-theory-he-suffered-severe-disorders-due-inbreeding-180953113/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/entrance-to-king-tuts-tomb-discovered

https://www.thenotsoinnocentsabroad.com/blog/the-discovery-of-king-tuts-tomb

https://www.thoughtco.com/tomb-of-king-tut-discovered-1779242

https://www.biography.com/scientist/howard-carter

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tutankhamun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter

https://allthatsinteresting.com/howard-carter

https://carter-at-saqqara.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-sakkarah-affair-1905-how-howard.html

https://www.history.com/news/is-the-curse-of-king-tut-real

https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-tomb-robbers.html

https://www.biography.com/royalty/king-tut

https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/tutankhamen

https://archaeology-travel.com/exhibitions/tutankhamun-treasures-of-the-golden-pharaoh/

 

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