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Ann Williams: National Geographic, Treasures of Egypt

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The discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb changed the American perspective on ancient Egypt. Photographer Maynard Owen Williams was sent over by National Geographic to cover it, and he took some photographs that were used in a New York Times story. The correspondence may be in the archives somewhere of the magazine; I do know that there was a staff writer named Maynard OwenWilliams who wrote an initial story about what happened.

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