Scholar speaks at Harvard on how images helped shaped legend of King Tut

Friday, November 9, 2018 - 16:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

High tech has made ours an era of ubiquitous images — they flash on our phones, computer screens, and TVs. We can access pictures from around the globe with the tap of a finger or the press of a button. But in the early 20th century, the newspaper was the visual information superhighway, and the pictures displayed in London papers in January 1923 exposed the world to long-unseen wonders. A few months earlier, when Howard Carter first peered into the dark antechamber of the millennia-old tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, his colleagues eagerly asked the English archaeologist if he could see anything. Dazzled by the sight, Carter stammered back, “Yes, wonderful things.” Images of some of those wonderful things appeared in print thanks to English photographer Harry Burton, who was working in Egypt on excavations for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. By loaning to the dig the services of one of...

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