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The Last Enigmas of Tutankhamun’s Tomb

Except for some tourist infrastructure and a ribbon of asphalt that connects it to the banks of the Nile, the Valley of the Kings probably looks a lot like it did just a century ago when Howard Carter made the fantastic discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. . Dusty hills, pebbles, sand and dominating it all is the pyramidal silhouette of Mount Al-Qurn, which, despite its small height of 420 meters, gives a majestic appearance to this lunar landscape.

When the Egyptologist sent the famous telegram to his patron Lord Carnarvon on November 6, 1922, informing him of his find, he suspected that the famous valley would soon be at the center of world interest. A hundred years later, after millions of tourists have trodden the same stones, breathed the same dust and admired the same frescoes in the dampness of tombs, what else can be expected from such a place? For many Egyptologists…

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Source: Le Figaro

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