100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun commemorates the exhibition in Karolin | PRAGUE | News
Tutankhamun. One of the most famous monarchs in human history. Since the discovery of the tomb Egyptian pharaoh’s 100 years passed this year. Moreover, exactly 100 years earlier, the hieroglyphs were deciphered. Two significant events that gave rise to Egyptology and significantly moved it forward are now commemorated by an exhibition in Prague’s Karolin.
The Egyptian script was deciphered for the first time by the French archaeologist Jean-François Champollion in 1822. He deciphered the hieroglyphs with the help of the trilingual Rosetta Plate, which is a 3D model and can be viewed at the exhibition.
With 100 years later then British Egyptologist Howard Carter’s workmen, while digging in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, stumbled upon a staircase leading to Tutankhamun’s tomb. You can view its 3D model.
The exhibition also shows original photo from the time of Carter’s discovery. In addition to the actual discovery of the tomb, the exhibition will also reveal what happened to the findings afterwards. There are also recent scientific findings. A panel with a small hole is also worth mentioning. The visitor can thus zoom in on what the discoverer saw through an opening into a chamber that had been closed for centuries.
STUP: An interesting part of the exhibition is a copy of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber.
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb was significant mainly because it was the first that was not robbed at the time of its discovery. Its treasures thus gave many testimonies about the way of burial of the kings of ancient Egypt.