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Dear discoverers,
A very warm welcome to our reading journey through Ancient Egypt. We’d like to take you with us to the land of the pyramids, Pharaohs and fabulous treasures. As an Egyptologist, I can tell you a lot about this exciting culture but of course the Ancient Egyptians themselves can do it even better. So we’ve simply asked Tutankhamun and his contemporaries to give us reports about their lives. They’ll be telling you about how the royal family, the craftspeople and the farmers lived along the banks of the Nile. Of course we’ll also be visiting the place where the many magnificent tomb complexes of the Egyptian Pharaohs lay: the Valley of the Kings. There we’ll be watching builders and tomb robbers at their work.
We’ll then return to the Valley of the Kings 3,250 years later because in 1922 two Englishmen made a sensational find here. Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun with all its golden treasures.
Can you imagine how the two archaeologists felt when they opened the tomb chambers? In the exhibition “Tutankhamun – His Tomb and His Treasures” you can slip into the role of discoverers yourselves and, just like Howard Carter, see “wonderful things”. Once you’ve explored the tomb chambers crammed with precious objects, you can examine all the treasures from the chambers more closely in the exhibition, just like in a museum: the thrones, statues, ornaments, chariots, and of course the sensational mask.
We hope you have a great time reading and discovering.
Susanne Martinssen-von Falck (Egyptologist) and the Tutankhamun expert team
