TAA iv.03.02
Several people are mentioned on this page, including: Albert Lythgoe, Herbert Winlock, Lord Carnarvon, Lady Evelyn Beauchamp (daughter of Carnarvon), James H. Breasted, Sir Alan H. Gardiner, Howard Carter, Alfred Lucas and Arthur Callender.
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Lythgoe, Winlock, and two or three
native officials, and then we all went
in a party to the tomb. The correspondents
keeping their vigil above the tomb saw all
of a sudden the procession arrive from
nowhere, and of course rex[?]/<al>ized what it
meant, but too late to make any special
arrangements for sending messages off. At
about 2.15 we all took off our coats
and filed silently down the stairway
into the tomb – Carnarvon, Lady Evelyn,
Breasted, Gardiner, Carter, Lucas, Callender
and the others already mentioned, about
twenty in all. The tomb looked as
though set for a stage scene. We
had put up boarding to protect the
statues which stood on either side
of the sealed doorway, and made a
small stage to enable us to attack
the upper part of the sealing, thinking
it was safest to work from the top
downwards. A little way back was
a barrier, and behind that chairs
for the visitors, as it was likely to be