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    DIGS & DISCOVERIES

    Aug 13, 2022 3 minutes
    —JARRETT A. LOBELL

    THE CASE OF TUT’S MISSING COLLAR

    Below the whole group and at the lowest level before reaching the skin, was a bib-like Collarette composed of fine green faience & gold bead matting having a zigzag pattern.… This bib covers the whole of the upper part of the chest as far as the clavicles.—Howard Carter, November 15, 1925

    Three years, almost to the day, after archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun (r. ca. 1336–1327 b.c.)

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