November 14th, 2015: Tut Tut Tutsie Hello

[xoxoxoBruce]

4 score and 13 years,(plus 10 days) ago, George Herbert, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and his expert minion Howard Carter, brought forth a new mummy, conceived in Egypt, and dedicated to the proposition, when it comes to burials, it's good to be the King.

Carter stared digging holes in Egypt in 1907, on Herbert's dime. By 1922 Herbert was pissed and gave Carter notice, this season you be finding, or you be gone... without a letter of recommendation. Well, Carter really dug digging in Egypt, so he really dug hard, and worthy of a Hollywood movie at the eleventh hour found a... he didn't know. But it was buried and the door was sealed, although he thought it may have been broken into at least once. I don't know why, look it up for homework... and write two single space pages.

Anyway, since his digging he dug was hanging by a thread, he told His Lordship to come on down. Everyone present and accounted for, that's Herbert and Carter 'cause the natives that did the work don't count, they open the door and saw the antechamber to the tomb of the fabled Boy King Tutankhamun.
This is a colorized photograph of what they saw.



I thought it looked kind of messy, but they(Herbert & Cater) were pretty happy to have found what looked like an intact load of booty they could pillage. They(the natives) still had work to do before they(Herbert & Carter) got to the burial chamber where the mummy had been waiting patiently for 3300 years. As anxious as they(everyone) were to see more, everything was tagged with a number, photographed in situ, then cleaned and cataloged before they(Herbert & Carter) stole it.
Retronaut has a bunch of large colorized pictures.

I went to see some of the spoils in DC when it toured. My buddy had borrowed my van to haul 3 bikes to Daytona so I had his Corvette which unlike my van fit in the Smithsonian parking garage under the Air and Space Museum. Waited in line 11 hours, got rushed through the exhibit, the parking garage was closed and locked up, snuck in the back, jack, and thre.. uh persuaded the guard to open the fucking gate or... well that's another story.

Anyway, I might have been a little grumpy at that point, but looking at the loot, the jewelry that made up a large part of it looked good. But local artisan good, not crown jewels good. I had to keep reminding myself this shit was over 3 thousand years old and hand crafted with the tools of the time.