The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by Howard Carter and AC Mace

Paperback. In good to very good condition. Some chaffing marks on the front cover, otherwise no blemishes (no foxing, yellowing, etc.) The text is clean and the spine is not creased. This edition published in 1977. 231 pages.

The author, Howard Carter, was the man who discovered the tomb of Pharao Tutankhamen. He had been search for the tomb for a number of years and was about to give it up and return to England, when he decided to make a last dig in an un-explored and partly covered by rubbish, area. The rest is history, as they say. He entered the tomb for the 1st time in November 1922 and he wrote this book in 1923. The book captures  the overwhelming exhilaration of the find (the first intact tomb ever found). He describes the step-by-step excavation and the wonder of opening the treasure-filled chamber of the king who had been dead for 3,000 years. The book contains 104 photographs of the phases of the discovery and of the treasures. It is also an easy read, not written in "academic language", but in an easy, flowing conversational style.