DISCOVERY OF THE TOMB OF TUTANKHAMEN
by Howard Carter and A.C. Mace. Dover Publications, 1977 (1921, 1927, 1933)


    DEDICATION --- to the memory of my beloved friend and colleague Lord Carnarvon (unpaged at beginning)

    INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION --- by Jon Manchip White (vii-xxviii)

      "When Howard Carter's workmen pointed out to him the first step beneath the debris of a workman's hut, on November 4, 1922, he was on the threshold of the most spectacular discovery ever recorded in the annals of archaeology." (vii)

    PREFACE (xxix-xxxviii)

    LIST OF PLATES (xli-xlv)

      79 Plates of black and white pictures in book and one "sketch-Plan" of the tomb (on page 223)

    INTRODUCTION --- Biographical sketch of the late Lord Carnarvon by Lady Winifred Burghclere, The Lake, Highclere, September 17, 1923 (1-40)

      1) THE TOMB OF TUTANKHAMEN --- the King and the Queen (14-49)

      2) THE VALLEY AND THE TOMB --- (50-62)

      3) THE VALLEY IN MODERN TIMES (63-74)

      4) OUR PREFATORY WORK AT THEBES (75-85)

      5) THE FINDING OF THE TOMB (86-96)

      6) A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION (97-109)

      7) A SURVEY OF THE ANTECHAMBER (110-122)

      8) CLEARING THE ANTECHAMBER (123-140)

      9) VISITORS AND THE PRESS (141-150)

      10) WORK IN THE LABORATORY (151-177)

      11) THE OPENING OF TEH SEALED DOOR (178-188)

    APPENDIX (189-224)

    INDEX (225-231)

    A CATALOGUE OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS --- in all fields of interest (15 unnumbered pages)

    DOVER BOOKS ON EGYPT (inside back cover)

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