In the Valley of the Kings (30 page)

142
“He was known to have pitted”
Gerald O’Farrell,
The Tutankhamun Deception
(New York: Pan Books, 2002), 52.

142
“On one occasion”
Carter and Mace,
The Discovery of … with a
Biographical Sketch
, 15.

144
“We had the whole Devonshire party”
Andrews diary, January 18, 1908, quoted in Hankey,
A Passion
, 108.

145
“It seems to me totally unnecessary”
Carnarvon,
No Regrets
, 115.

147
The one prediction
Weigall,
Tutankhamen
, 88, quoted in Reeves,
Tutankhamun
, 157.

147.
“we stand between the eternity”
Amelia Edwards,
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900), 12.

148.
As Weigall described it
Hankey,
A Passion
, 109.

CHAPTER 11

149
“At every step in Egypt”
Edwards,
Pharaohs
, 12–14.

151
a “mystical potency”
GI, Carter’s diary, November-December 1925.

151
“Legrain is a fool”
Maspero to Weigall, December 28, 1908, Arthur Weigall Archive, held by Julie Hankey, quoted in Hankey,
A Passion
, 132.

152
“Everyone—natives and foreigners”
Maspero to Legrain, March 23, 1911, Arthur Weigall Archive, held by Julie Hankey, quoted in Hankey,
A Passion
, 361, see fn 34.

152
“Ayrton was not popular at night”
Smith to his mother, March 1908, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., correspondence of Joseph Lindon Smith.

153
“By lamplight, therefore, the work”
Weigall,
Tutankhamen
, 146–150.

156
“Imagination is a good servant”
Petrie,
Ten Years’ Digging
, 156.

156
“The warm, dry and motionless atmosphere”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1.

156
“Many of the roof slabs”
Howard Carter, “Report of Work Done in Upper Egypt, 1902–1903, Edfu Temple,”
ASAE
4 (1903).

157
“May 1901. Temple strutted”
Ibid.

157
“159 L.E. prices for girders”
Ibid.

157
He was not a great artist
Thomas Hoving,
Tutankhamun: The Untold Story
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978), 27.

158
“On the left cheek”
Howard Carter,
The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen
, Vol. II (1927); Dr. Derry, Appendix I, “Report Upon the Examination of Tutankhamen’s Mummy” (New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1963). Also see F. F. Leek,
The Human Remains from the Tomb of Tutankhamun
(Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1972), 6.

159
Before the discovery
I am indebted to Christine El Mahdy, who makes this point in
Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-King
(New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999), 131. She states: “Efforts to wipe out his [Tutankhamun’s] very existence had almost been successful, and had it not been for the discovery of the tomb, he would be an historical nonentity to this day.”

159
“I watched Helen Cunliffe-Owen”
Carnarvon,
No Regrets
, 129.

161
He wrote in his autobiographical sketch
GI, Carter, “An Account of Myself,” Notebook 15, Sketch II, 46, quoted in Winstone,
Howard Carter
, 53.

161
“He doesn’t hesitate to”
GI, Newberry correspondence, 33/31.

161
“I have never accepted Carter”
Reisner to Howes (of the Boston Museum), October 9, 1924, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Department of Egyptian Art, quoted in Reeves and Taylor,
Howard Carter
, 161.

162
If Carnarvon could be irritating
For a photo of a typical Carnarvon menu, see Reeves and Taylor,
Howard Carter
, 108.

PART SIX: A FINAL THROW OF THE DICE

EPIGRAPH

163
“How did they meet?”
Denis Diderot,
Jacques the Fatalist
(London: Oxford World Classics, 1999), 1.

CHAPTER 12

166
“Lord Carnarvon … discovered”
Weigall,
Tutankhamen
, 140. For a photo of the find, see Reeves,
The Complete Tutankhamun
, 23.

168
“Towards the end of the work”
Weigall to Griffith, October 1, 1908, GI, Griffith correspondence, 362, quoted in Hankey,
A Passion
, 127.

168
“It is grievous to think”
Griffith to Weigall, October 2, 1908, Arthur Weigall Archive, quoted in Hankey,
A Passion
, 127.

169
“No single inscription”
Alan H. Gardiner, “The Defeat of the Hyksos by Kamôse: The Carnarvon Tablet, no. 1,”
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
3 (1916).

169
“at the time of the perfuming”
Griffith’s translation, found in George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, and Howard Carter,
Five Years’ Explorations at Thebes: A Record of Work Done 1907–1911
(London: Henry Frowde, 1912).

169
“I would rather discover”
Carter,
The Discovery of … with a Biographical Sketch
, Vol. I, 29.

170
“After perhaps ten days work”
Carnarvon and Carter,
Five Years’;
see “Introduction by the Earl of Carnarvon.”

171
“spoke to him as if”
Arthur Mace to Winifred Mace, January 28, 1922, Mace Papers, held by Margaret Orr, quoted in James,
Howard Carter
, 283.

174
“fears the Valley”
Theodore Davis et al.,
Excavations: Biban el Moluk: The Tombs of Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou
(London: Constable, 1912), 3. Carter refers to Davis’s remark in
The Discovery of … with a Biographical Sketch
, Vol. I, 75.

174
the asker being Herbert Winlock
For Winlock’s analysis, see Herbert Winlock, “Materials Used at the Embalming of King Tüt-’ankh-Amün,” MMA Papers, New York, 1941.

175
Davis was preparing his volumes
Davis,
Harmhabi and Touatânkhamanou.

176
“The absence of officials”
Carter,
The Discovery of … with a Biographical Sketch
, Vol. I, 79.

CHAPTER 13

181
“In the summer of 1922”
Charles Breasted,
Pioneer
, 328–329.

182
“He granted that perhaps even
Ibid.

182
“It is well known”
James Breasted to his wife, November 27, 1925, University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, Director’s Office correspondence, 1925.

183
“laid before him”
Charles Breasted,
Pioneer
, 328–329.

183
“Some later, off-season time
Ibid.

184
In her thought-provoking
Tutankhamen
El Mahdy,
Tutankhamen
, 205.

186
“In this area”
Charles Breasted,
Pioneer
, 328–329. 186
“Now, said Carter”
Ibid.

CHAPTER 14

188
“Hardly had I arrived”
Carter,
The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen
, Introduction by John Romer, 49–55.

189
“Anything, literally anything”
Ibid.

190
“At last have made”
Ibid.

191
“Plunderers had entered it”
Ibid.

191
“With trembling hands”
Ibid.

EPILOGUE

193
“There were soldiers springing”
Arthur Weigall for the
Daily Mail
, February [18?], 1923. The scene at the newly discovered tomb was similarly described in the
Daily Telegraph
, quoted in Hoving,
The Untold Story
, 153.

194
“strange rustling murmuring whispering sounds”
James H. Breasted, “Some Experiences in the Tomb of Tetenkhamon” [microfilm: Z-6583 no. 13, Breasted, James Henry, 1865–1935] (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1923), Chicago University Alumni Pamphlets, no. 2.

198
The steward handed
From the notes of Lee Keedick of Keedick’s Lecture Bureau, who accompanied Carter during his American speaking tour. Mr. Keedick’s son provided a copy to Hoving,

198
The Untold Story
, 330. 198
“We found him repairing”
Caton-Thompson,
Mixed Memoirs
, 148.

198
“a pair of jackals”
GI, Carter’s diary, September 1928-April 1929; entry in question October 27, 1928.