TAA i.12.06

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TAA i.12
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Carter's Lecture Notes for Lecture on Discovery of Tutankhamun, p.7
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Howard Carter
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                                                                                                          (7)

SLIDES.                                                                                                                                                                    

                                             THE VALLEY OF THE TOMB OF THE KINGS.

1- LVIII.              THE MOUTH OF THE VALLEY.
2- LXII.              THE ROAD WINDING BETWEEN ITS ROCKY DEFILES.                                                    
3- LXVIII.           THE ROAD WINDING WESTWARD TOWARDS THE ROYAL CEMETERY.
4- XII.                THE WADYEIN BRANCH.
5- LXXIII.           THE ENTRANCE TO THE ROYAL CEMETERY.
6- LXXVII.         THE ROYAL CEMETERY.      
7- LVI.               THE SITE OF THE TOMB OF TUTANKHAMEN.

                                                            THE EXCAVATIONS.

8- XXXIV.           THE SITE WHEN WE FIRST STARTED OUR RESEARCHESsic.
9- XL.                 BEGINNING TO OPEN UP THE UNTOUCHED STRATUM BELOW. 
<11>10- XLII.     THE TRENCH APPROACHING THE BED-ROCK. 
<10>11- XLIII.    BOYS CARRYING BASKETS. The method adopted in Egypt for    
                           transporting rubbish from the excavation.

                                                       THE DISCOVERY OF THE TOMB.

12- LII.               THE WORKMAN’S HUT under which we discovered the first step
                           leading to the tomb.
13- 1.                 THE TOP OF THE STEPS WHEN FIRST REVEALED.
14- 3.                THE SIXTEEN STEPS LEADING TO THE SEALED DOORWAY.
15- 274             THE SEALED DOORWAY. Note:- On this sealed doorway there are
                           distinct traces of successive re-openings and re-closings, which
                           indicate that the tomb has been subsequently entered and closed 
                           after the burial.  On the re-closed portion are impressions of 
                           the ROYAL NECROPOLIS SEAL. On the lower and untouched portion 
                           are the original seal impressions of Tutankhamen.
16- 296              EXAMPLES OF THE SEAL IMPRESSIONS.
17- 4.                 THE PASSAGE. 
                          Note:- The filling of this passage, like/<corresponding with> the door-
                          way, shewssic distinct traces of having been tunneled through and 
                          afterwards re-filled. The original filling comprises stone-chipsic.
                          Whereas the upper disturbed part has been filled in with flint
                          boulders evidently from the heap of boulders discovered during 
                          our researchessic in the Valley.