The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

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The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

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Everyone from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography down gives the date of this accident as 1903, and claims that it was what led Carnarvon to winter in Egypt and to take up archaeology there.

The Earl and the Pharaoh by Countess of Carnarvon | Goodreads

But overall, I was sorely disappointed with how little was written about the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Hutchinson, who served as an assistant to Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, gained national prominence when she testified to the House Select Committee, providing possibly the most damaging portrait of Trump’s erratic behavior to date. I got about 100 pages in and hopped on here to look at the reviews to see if I should hang in there. Other times, the author would switch to someone’s title and without explaining whose title it is, so you have no idea who she is talking about.Am skipping now to chapter 15, The Mummified Cat which at least hints at a start to address the topic it suggests is the reason for publication. None of the other works demonstrated just how much trouble the press and public gave the dig in slowing down the preservation process after the discovery. Well, maybe I’m too middle class, but I’m disappointed that instead of hearing about Carnarvon’s association with the finding of Tutankhamen’s tomb, I’m reading about a bunch of upper class wasters, who like huntin’ shootin’ and yachting around the world. His half-brother Aubrey Herbert, the model for Sandy Arbuthnot in John Buchan’s Richard Hannay novels, turns out to have been every bit as dashing as his fictional alter-ego, travelling through the Near East on mysterious diplomatic missions and being offered the throne of Albania – not once, but twice. He had the money to participate in real discoveries and he made one of the most famous ones in history.

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The title suggests the book revolves around the earl and the Pharaoh, it just didn't happen in this book. In 1906, his interest piqued by the excavations of the American treasure hunter Theodore Davis, Carnarvon obtained a small excavating concession near the Valley of the Kings where, the authorities thought, “he could do no harm”. In 1922, Lord Carnarvon, other leading Egyptologists of the day, Egyptian officials and much of the world’s press, gathered outside the unremarkable entrance to the tomb of a minor pharaoh to experience the discovery of the richest Egyptian burial ever found. Providing such an insight into the life of such an extraordinary man by someone who has had the stories passed down to her should have been super interesting. All a smokescreen, the devilish work of Lady Winifred Burghclere in her flowery cover up biography of Lord Carnarvon from 1923, 40- odd- pages of elegant dross that has been slavishly regurgitated by Highclere, and which now stands as a poor legacy of monumental howlers blighting thousands of books and articles.Her anecdotes are humorous, heartfelt, and supremely captivating, recounted with the passion of a true survivor and the acerbic wit of a weathered, street-wise New Yorker.



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