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THE TOMB OF THE BOY KING

26 November 1922, as he stood before a sealed doorway beneath the Egyptian desert, British Egyptologist Howard Carter could only imagine what treasures lay within. Seal impressions on the tomb’s – now dismantled – outer door had already revealed that this was none other than the much-searched-for tomb of the 18th Dynasty

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