Howard Carter Quotes

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• The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
• Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion…
• It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
• Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean…
• Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.
• I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a…
• All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
• After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost…
• As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed…
• Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.
• Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances…
• It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.
• These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the…
• They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.
• We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was…
• We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and…
• With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were…

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