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On 26 November 1922, after eight years of work in the Valley of the Kings, archeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tut Ankh Amun, a pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (around 1300 BCE). Different than all the tombs hitherto excavated, this was the first to be (virtually) undisturbed, and Carters words on a first look into the tomb "Yes, wonderful things!" have gone down in history. <br>Excavating the tomb in full took eight years, and most of the 5,398 items that were found in the tomb are now on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, with the exception of the mummy of Tut Ankh Amun, that remained in the tomb where it was laid to rest. <br>This first volume of Howard Carter's memoirs (written in late 1923) recounts the finding and opening of the tomb of Tut Ankh Amun, the clearing of the Antechamber, and the opening of the sealed door leading to the main chamber. ( Availle)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/tomboftutankhame00cart_1 (for now: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77344/page/n19)
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Biography & Autobiography/Memoirs; *Non-fiction/History
Keywords that describe the book: history, egypt, treasure, Pharaoh, gold, mummy, archeology, tomb, carter, carnarvon, Tutankhamun
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START of recording (Intro):
[list][*]"Section [number] of The Tomb of Tut Ankh Amun. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
[*] If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" [*] Say:
"The Tomb of Tut Ankh Amun, by Howard Carter and A.C. Mace. [Chapter]"
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- "Section [number] of The Tomb of Tut Ankh Amun by Howard Carter. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
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"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
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"End of Section [number]"
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"End of The Tomb of Tut Ankh Amun, by Howard Carter and A.C. Mace. "
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[*]Example filename tomboftutankhamen_##_carter_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. tomboftutankhamen_01_carter_128kb.mp3)
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