How did Howard Carter Locate Tutankhamun's Tomb?
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- 'How did Howard Carter Locate Tutankhamun's Tomb?'
On November 4th 1922 a breathless archaeologist, who had spent his life working in Egypt, wrote a hurried diary entry: “First steps of Tomb Found”. This was the very moment that iconic archaeologist Howard Carter found the entrance to the tomb of the Ancient Egyption Pharaoh, Tutankhamun.
In this very special film, shot in Egypt and England, Dan Snow commemorates the centenary of the most famous archaeological discovery of them all - walking in the footsteps of Howard Carter as he retraces the story of the discovery, from the beginnings of Carter’s career as a young artist recording reliefs in Hatshepsut’s magnificent temple, to the house he built especially close to the Valley of the Kings thanks to the support of Lord Carnarvon.
The History Hit team has gained access to key places associated with this historic story: Highclere Castle, home of Lord Carnarvon; Tutankhamun’s Tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and his famous golden treasures in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, which we explore with conservator Eid Murtah.
And Dan discovers that there is another side to this story, revealed in Oxford - Howard Carter’s extensive records are stored here. Dan gets up close to key objects in the Bodleian Weston Library’s exhibition ‘Tutankhamun - Excavating the Archives’, including the famous journal entry that, as Carter first gazed into the dark of the tomb, he told Carnarvon “It is wonderful”.
In Oxford’s Griffith Archive, Dan explores the records in detail with curator Daniella Rosenow. The original glass plate negatives reveal how the tomb looked as Carter opened it, with now familiar objects covered in flowers and linens, carefully placed there as the nineteen year old pharaoh was buried in 1323 BC. It presents a very different image of the objects that we now picture cleaned up and conserved - here they are in a much more immediate moment just as Carter uncovered them.
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00:00 Introduction
01:17 Highclere Castle - Home of Lord Carnarvon
05:01 Howard Carter's Diary
08:08 Valley of the Kings
11:50 Tutankhamun's Burial Chamber
13:43 Photographs of Discovery
I wish the tomb could be filled with replicas of the original treasures and sarcophagi found so that people could get a sense of what Howard Carter felt when he saw it all.
I really like that idea too. Bc we really don’t know what it looked like when he discovered it. Just the same pictures I have seen online and UA-cam
@@usasstar Howard Carter looted Tut tombe
Alexander the Great is Tutankhamun ua-cam.com/video/YrEza-VAbPg/v-deo.html
@@rosaalba1660 you just spit that fool sh!t on YT
@@rosaalba1660 Howard Carter preserved Tut’s tomb
I was really fortunate to visit the tomb and the collection at the antiquities museum around 2015 during a lull in tourism. There was virtually no one there! Almost had the valley of the kings to ourselves and the same was for the museum in Cairo.
Sounds great. One of my Uncles, passed away now, went there in the 1950's when he was in the army. "Tourism" wasn't a thing then, apparently you found a guide somehow who got you there, you held onto a rope to go into the tombs & you used torches & lanterns to see around inside.
Wonderful country is it not 🙋♀️🙋♀️👵🇦🇺
Yet they say there is 8billion people in the world lol…
@@manyielfieg4473 lol dumb. There were few tourists due the political instability. They were A LOT of vendors, who were suffering financially due the sudden lack of tourists.
Still, to have seen it back in the 50s or even in the 70s must have been an incredible and exciting experience and journey. Before instagram and the internet. You really had to work to go somewhere and you could not “pre-experience “ as you do now here on youtube or on IG. Traveling was a very different thing before.
I love how all the treasures were just randomly stored in the tomb. Like people put their stuff in a garage or spare room. Its also fascinating how he is now the most famous Egyptian King of all time despite being so young & therefore not really that important in Egypts history of Kings. But it was his tomb we found. Just like it was Ann Franks diary we found. So they become the most famous for that reason alone.
it was literally found like hunting fr treasure. thats what they wanted. the treasures. not the rotting corpse. Plus the point about ann frank obviously went over your dumb head. which was that neither people were the most important people but they have become the most important historical figures just because we have found records of their existence. @hogienutz6869
There's such a personal touch to history hit docs. Maybe it's the handcam use, maybe it's just Dan, but this is so much more enjoyable than a lot of clinical network-based docs I've seen.
This means a lot thank you!
Alexander the Great is Tutankhamun ua-cam.com/video/YrEza-VAbPg/v-deo.html
The best memory of my life is being all alone in Tutanchamon's tombe. I sat on the floor and was in awe and crying my eyes out from happiness since I waited 25 years to finally be there.
Me tooooooooo...... I was 15 and it came to Chicago in 1978 and I was the last one in the room that was all dark and nobody else was in the room with me and my parents walked into the gift shop and I was like what are you in a hurry for I'm going to stay here as long as possible.. and I was the only one in that room and there were thousands of people behind me but they weren't at the last room yet
I so hate when people comment on here things that are just fantasy as I have been to the tomb and you would never be alone in it for reasons if u have been there you will know as for sat on the floor that's impossible there is in room to sit in the tomb as it's tiny sorry but why not spend your time spreading happyness and truth not lies
@@wills3743 First of all, I don't have to explain anything to you. I've been to the Valley 14 times in total. And what do you mean with no room to sit? There were over 5000 objects in his tomb, all miniature of course? 🤣🤦♀
PS; never learned any grammar in school I guess?!
You need a shrink!
@@wills3743 don’t be a moron
Dan Snow looks like a Jedi in the tomb haha
I like Dan Snow and the history of King Tut ... this will be Wonderful!
Thanks for uploading.
Thanks Nancy!
Dan is the only Historian that I never get tired of listening to. That's because he takes time to explain everything to detail.
That library is insane wow.
Outstanding! It's interesting, though, to see the actual diary entry because I've always heard that Carter's reply when Carnarvon asked if he saw anything was, "Yes, wonderful things."
The artefacts Tut was buried in was not made by the ancient Egyptians. Just look at that manufacturing process of the sarcophagus. Now compare to the graffiti, that is where they carved Tuts name. Two distinct levels of technology. Hand tools vs. machine tools
@@TheBelrick Yep, mate. Not only did they not have your required level of technology back then, but they also didn't have the same oversupply of sheer nutters, alien invader weirdos and conspiracy theory cranks that infest the Web these days! 🙄🤣🤣🤣
@@theoztreecrasher2647 hey speaking of nutters, conspiracy theorists. How is your heart? Melted through safe and effective injections? mine isn't
Doesn't that make me better than you?
And you caught covid anyway didn't you?
Despite giving up wealth (pay those high prices today), fresh air (wear that face covering) and traded your hearts health, and your immune system away.
My god man its hilarious that you still think that conspiracies aren't real. Have you even read a dictionary? Do you not even know the meaning the word? If you did you would know that conspiracies happen for real all the time and therefor the demonization of the term. Conspiracy. Serves the purpose of keeping people like you from noticing conspiracies.
@@TheBelrick Oh they happen all right! Just check on the German Police who have rounded up a whole gaggle of Q-anon/Red Dump-type nutters who were planning to take their example from them thar True Amurikan Patriots. 😱🙄
@@theoztreecrasher2647 Only one of us took poison.
You are lesser than me and any baiting as you celebrate the work of neogestapo forces is just water off a ducks back
The power imbalance between the people and the [them] is now so great that those who attempt resistance will get crushed.
So feel free to celebrate your journey into the abyss. Along the way, life will continue to get harder, more oppressive but you will cheer this demise on all the same
Because you are damaged.
Some of the items came to the Denver Museum. It was such a great thrill to see the items. I am too poor to go to Egypt, but I could afford a ticket to see the treasures.
Can I see what he saw ?
Thank you so much for this.
Thank you for watching and supporting Robbie!
It’s so interesting, I can’t wrap my head around it.
Dan Snow presents an excellent story documenting the extraordinary discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun - with an important acknowledgement that it wasn't just Carter & Carnarvon alone that found the tomb. I wonder, is there a part 2 to this video?
Alexander the Great is Tutankhamun ua-cam.com/video/YrEza-VAbPg/v-deo.html
Thank you, brilliant . It definitely has the wow factor doesn’t it 👍👍👍👍👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺
One of the most interesting episodes I've watched in a while.
King Tut may not have been Egypt's most famous Pharaoh, but based upon the vast riches found buried with him, he must have been very much loved by his people.
That doesn't necessarily follow. The better explanation would be that the amount of wealth that was buried with an insignificant pharaoh demonstrates the wealth and power of the dynasty or of the insitution of kingship in general. It's commonly supposed that phraraohs such as Snefru, or Ramses II, or Thutmoses III would have been buried with even greater wealth, but that might not be the case either if the grave goods buried with each pharaoh are a reflection of the prosperity of the time more than the power of the individual pharaoh--- and that could be the case.
@Girard Small mind
Dan Snow Jedi Master
I read somewhere the Carter's meticulous cataloguing and removal of the objects in the tomb took something like 7 or 8 years. Imagine the discipline that would take. Every single object, photographed and sketched in situ, measured, recorded, carefully moved, photographed again, and boxed up for shipping and further study. Every day, in the desert, for years. Carter might not have been a great archaeologist, he might have been the GREATEST archaeologist.
What Carter had done become a standard procedure for archeology. Every content must be photographed and catalogued before they are removed. This made Howard Carter perhaps the greatest archeologist.
Love this channel!
Much appreciated 🙏
How great the artwork was.
Tutankhamun’s Tomb unsealed 100 YEARS AGO TODAY!
i loved the passion and explanations of the egyptologist alia ismaili! What a wonderful guest, she really added to the documentary.
Incredible. Great documentary 😊
This video is amazing I love everything about it. The way it was explained, the history of carter. I need to learn more.
I had the pleasure of visiting the great exhibition on a school trip to London ,I think it was around 1972 .its a shame really as we were taught nothing at at all about the king but I can say I was stood looking at the beautiful mask from only about 2ft away staring into the eyes of the king ,I remember it was so stunning with the gold and blue stripes .I was privileged, but didn't know at the tiime!
I saw the Tut exhibit when it traveled thru the US. Amazing workmanship and over three thousand years old.
It's amazing
She has passed the test of. Time. Welcome back. Pero. Tut am
10:00 Dan Snow, Jedi Knight, stands ready to vanquish yet another one of his mortal enemies...
I loved visiting the tomb I sat and rolled up a fat joint and smoked it up and dedicated it to the great 1
Had "Psusennes I" not been found right before the start of WW2 his tomb would have been much more popular IMO. His mask and (silver) coffin are absolutely beautiful.
I never actually went this far in my own research of tutankhamon i mean i know this was a thing but i'm simply amazed by all of this but still i have so many questions.
My mom studied in Cairo Egypt 2 years I wanna go see it one day
So very interesting..thank you
The tomb has barely enough room to walk. It is incredibly small. The artifacts in egyptian museum are exquisite.
Goodness me, Dan Snow sounds so much like his father!
King Tut isn't even related to Dan Snow. In fact, the two are thousands of years apart in existence.
Sources: I stoo-phed! 🤪😜
Living in my car going tru the worse, yet see dazzling ending coming🎉
Carter did place so many objects in the tomb :D
The waterboy while bringing vessels of water to the excavation area would place them in the sand to keep them upright.
Upon placing one he felt a distinct thud and brushed away the sand to discover a hewn stone which was the first step into the tomb.
The rest is history.
1922 picture - better than 2022
It’s interesting how small Tut’s tomb is when his successor, the aged Ay, has a much larger tomb in the Western Valley. Ay ruled about 4 years. Tut ruled about 10. One suspects Ay purloined Tut’s intended tomb.
It was surprisingly small and basic compared to some of the others.
It's possible Tutanchamun's tomb was unfinished, since no one expected him to die at 19.
@@stsk1061 Not so sure KV62 was as unfinished as it’s theorised. Like KV55, it may have originally been made for a high official or perhaps a queen or princess. At has only four years or reign, and sure he was quite old when he became pharaoh and do his tomb may have been made apace, but Tut has 9 or 10 years of reign and tombs began almost straight away after Pharoahs came to the throne. Also, Tut received much that was repurposed from his predecessor, Ankhkheperure who, Reeves theorises, was entombed in KV62 first, which is quite plausible for mine. (Reeves thinks she’s still there, that bit I’m less ready to believe).
Whatever they did to tutankhamun came back to them because they only made him the most famous Pharaoh in the world
@@badmanno.1650 Tut clearly has better luck in that sense than those who wanted to forget him. Stephen Cross made a very good case for thinking he was saved by a flood. ✅
Nice house.
Actually this tomb was made last minute and his original tomb was stolen by Aye (or Ay, can’t remember spelling)
Incredibly interesting presentation! I wish I'd seen this before writing my book, "Hidden Behind The Mask: the Search For Nefertiti." Yes, it's a novel, but it's my rendition of what might have been. Thank you for this excellent, factual overview of an even that that took place over three-thousand years ago....
Way More than 3000 years..
Well 3,358 years to be more precise, but what's a couple centuries between friends.... @@watchout412
Interesting how grave robbing went from a hanging offence to a popular passtime
Well, don't worry. The world is harsher than you can ever imagine, and doing things your way would benefit the world very little in comparison to all the work that has been done on this, which we must not simply take for granted.
Although Tut was insignificant in his time, he became the most famous because of the discovery of his grave!!
When will this be up on History Hits? Txs
It's already out!
@@HistoryHit why can’t i see it? All i get is the podcast.
@@HistoryHit just finished it - it was wonderful… i love that it was as much about Carter.
A few years ago there was talk of a second unopened chamber behind the wall in Tutankhamun tomb which is unusually small. They speculated that it might contain the remains of his mother, did anything come of it.
Sahi Hawasshole intervened. There's no second chamber because he decided there isn't.
@@runlarryrun77 🤪🤪🤡
@@runlarryrun77 Tinfoil hatter.
@@frontenac5083 can you scream NOTHING TO SEE HERE any louder?😂😂😂🦧. Jesus Christ man I’m curious, How hard is it for you to type your Mensa level quips with Zahi’s manhood being massaged by your tonsils? Asking fora friend
@@frontenac5083 If Hawass had been around 100 years ago he would have probably stopped Carter from digging, as it was believed Tutankhamun's tomb had been discovered.
Just a tiny bit of research shows what a barrier he is to new theories, even if they're presented to him by reputable experts like Joann Fletcher.
I suppose she's a tinfoil hatter too? 🤤🤤🤤
Let us remember that it was one of his workers that found the stop which lead down the steps to the tomb
If I remember correctly the steps were discovered by a 12 year old boy that worked with the Carter team as a laborer getting water to the workers, and doing various jobs. Howard Carter gave this young boy the honor of being at the sealed door when the stairs were cleared. He let this young boy observe as Carter broke the seal and entered the tomb for the first time. What an unforgettable experience that was for everyone present at that moment.
I was very surprised to see the Downtown Abbey house 😂 one more reason to go there
I have a question: since Egyptian language was only expressed in consonants, how do we know how to insert the right vowels to get the sound of an Akenaten or Tutekanum? Is it because it is what sounds so euphonious to our ears? How do we know it was Cleopatra and not Cluopetria, for instance? How do we know this? Chuck in Durham
£45,000 in 1922 is @ £900,000
They didn't mention that the boy wearing the necklace was the boy who found the tomb, he found a hole in the ground which lead to the stairs
Thoroughly entertaining
What was the value, and did the finder make it all?
I think the egyptologist lady is a descendant of the pharaos as she is covered in gold 😊
Anyone living in a castle is a crook
Dan walking to Downton Abbey lol!
Was that Downton Abbey was that the same.. mansion?
@@kimvanhowe852 yes!!!😂 Lady Carnarvon do a lot of downton abbey related interview on UA-cam
You never answered the question, in the click bait title. How did he locate it. Lady Carnarvon hinted that they knew it had to be there, but you went right past the most interesting aspect of the discovery and headed down the stairs.
First steps of tomb found , I honestly couldn’t figure out what he wrote until the narrator said it hahaha carter didn’t even cross his t’s
This tomb was not intact. It had been robbed twice in ancient times. This was documented by Carter. This is why many objects are piled in disarray in the photos. The thieves even dropped bags of plunder in their haste. The walls between the chambers had holes with evidence of replastering. This was the main evidence. Something like 40 to 60% of the smaller items were believed to be stolen.
Where are you getting this information from?
It was nearly intact. Yes, it appears to have been robbed but everything else in your comment is extremely exaggerated, or blatantly wrong.
The robbers didn’t fancy taking the solid gold mask, eh?
@@paulannable3734 They barely had time to do anything and we don't know if anything was even stolen. It appears they were quickly caught.
I saw a Jedi at 10:00
I hear Howard Carter also Discovered Steve Martin.
Let's hunt down queen treasure now
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I'm glad that you're wearing gloves because I've been scolded about people wearing gloves saying it ruins the items, I know you're wearing cotton one's, won't I don't understand is why are they saying that the gloves are destroying the fabric of the garment and the other items that are being touched by the gloves when I know that the oils in the human hand are most destructive.🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😡🤷♀️
@Real Aiglon Absolutely correct and very well explained.
9:00 Didin't know Moose became Egyptologist
His name means the light of Amum.
Before I start the video I'm just going to predict it was dowsing rods. It was dowsing rods, right?
My father was 1 year old
When does a grave no longer become respected and left alone. Rip ?
Ancient Egyptians were preppers. Good to know.
Is no one talking about the castle being downtown abbey???
@Real Aiglon It's "Downton" (not "Dowton").. get it right, please! 🙄
ok but how did Howard Carter locate Tutakkhamun's tomb? video does not say
It’s crazy how thing wasn’t meant to be found, touched, or removed. And we found it, touched it, and removed it. Why? I get its fascinating history, but why do we feel obligated to dismantle the intent of a burial site? Weird conundrum violation vs research of history and our world.
45k in 1910-1922 is not 22m in todays money more like 2m
"How did Howard Carter Locate Tutankhamun's Tomb?"
I'm still not sure. Not a word in the video answering this question.
vouch
Does anybody else get annoyed by the English mispronunciation of Tu-tan-kamum?
His name was Tut-ank-amun.
Nov. 2. When found was also the Day of The Dead 💀
The Ara Pacis is a Roman sculpture= The altar of peace is the monument that commemorates the victories of Augustus and symbolizes the establishment of the prince of peace ,and disregarded his earned titels for Desecration of truth I,E, hidden or burial,by them that take his tiles of Son of God prince of peace !
First of all 45,000 dollars doesn't equal 20 million in today's money... it's under a million!
I was wondering why they failed to mention that the basket at the bottom of the wall was placed there by Carter to hide the hole they busted into to see the tomb before authorities were present
What is sad is that 20M pounds or dollars is a rounding error to today's governments, it's a nothingburger for them. It only matters to those of us who still have to count our change.
We must thank them that they stole it according to you,at least They kept it safe from the world.
🥃🥃
Did the Egypt people mind this guy just taking all these treasures back to england
The treasures were not taken to England. They went to Cairo and they've been there ever since.
@@Matthew-ut6ed some of them were stolen by Carter. It's a proven fact now.
@@clownworld5474 Yes, I know, and that was inexcusable. But my point was that the vast majority remained in Egypt's possession. The original commenter seemed to be under the impression that everything went to England.
@@Matthew-ut6ed my bad. the investors needed something in return right, otherwise what's the point in spending the money and the time. If the Egyptians wanted everything, why not pay your own citizens to find everything lol
@@clownworld5474 Well, Carter's aristocratic financial backers had money to burn and did it for the kudos of being associated with the discovery. Ironically, it was Carter, the diligent and justifiably renowned archaeologist, who couldn't resist taking a few things for himself.
in a way it's sad they completely looted the tomb. In that sense they were no better than all the graverobbers that cleaned out all the other tombs, but at least most the contents have been preserved, while much of it probably would have been stolen or damaged anyway if it was left in situ. It is however worth noting that since the tomb has been left open and thousands of people have been inside it, the wall paintings are deteriorating and the colours fading, so they're not quite as brightly coloured as they would have been originally, or even when Carter found the tomb in 1922. Nothing's being done to preserve the walls - no airlock doors or climate control, so they will continue to deteriorate
Yes, people looting to preserve and share with the world is just like grave robbers melting down the gold pieces, tearing out the jewels and selling it piece by piece to be lost forever. 🙄 Grow up.
Lo metieron ahí...pero,no era su tumba como ninguno de los objetos encontrados, pertenecían a una mujer, Tutankamon no fue relevante.
His birth name was Tutankhaten.
Imagine thinking we don't know that's Downton Abbey. I never even watched that & I recognised it straight away. Shame on you.
@Beaudile Imagine thinking even for a snippet of a millisecond that I was being serious 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You absolute clown 🤡🤡🤡🤡
@Beaudile 🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡🖕🖕🖕
Andy Ruiz back home
Carter destroyed the mummy king tut had eyelids,ears,his hands were kept in the royal pose now king tut lost everything
What outstanding work, I wish I could of been with Carter stealing all those grave goods under candle light, smiling with glee that we were going to be rich and famous. Such desecration fills me with such joy! I can only explain the feeling as being like driving down the road hungry, and then those beautiful Golden arch’s appear on the horizon and I know very soon I’ll be munching down on a nice big McChicken sandwich large fries and at least ten chicken nuggets washed down with an ice cold Coca Cola.
Without him, all this knowledge would have been lost.
Grow up.
Sorry but not well researched. The boy wearing the necklace - Hussein Abdel Rasoul didnt just have a role in the excavation. He actually discovered the tomb step and led Howard Carters team to the tomb. Possibly the tomb wouldnt have been found without him.
A lot of ignorant conspiracy theorists in this comment section.
Not to deviate the conversation, but 45K pounds equals 20M in today’s money? That’s extreme inflation! How will our kids/grandkids do it in 100 years into the future? Ok, now back to Tutankhamen 😂
Hi, I’m Dan Snow
Lord Carnarvon was a Fascinating Man - Spent £900k for the entire operation- I'm sure he was a force to be seen and positively a Debonair Sophisticated Gentleman. 🌴🐪🐪🌴
Not £20 million,. £45k in 1922, is £~900k today
He is a Thief & Grave Robber! Nothing more. He Got what was coming to him!
I wish you'd mentioned all the Egyptian workers earlier, rather than adding it as an afterthought at the end of the video, especially considering it was likely and Egyptian who discovered the first steps, and it was Egyptians who did the hard work without credit, and ultimately, Egypt that lost out in this discovery, with Carter not even allowing Egyptian government officials to view the tomb.
Factually incorrect almost in every single sentence you wrote.
Like all explorer by accident 🤣😂😅