Tutankhamun
The Ancients
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The History of Tussing Khamun
There are more than 5000 objects in Tutankhamun's tomb. A lot of them haven't been studied because there are so many. Howard Carter, I think, did a very good job in trying to conserve them with the skills available to him at the time. But basically he took them out of the tomb, did some conservation work and sent them to the Cairo Museum. The Cairo Museum has guarded them but hasn't been able to study everything in the detail that we would like it to be studied.
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