exhibits 1 - Tutankhamun’s funerary mask (replica)
Original made of gold, lapis lazuli and glass paste.
18th dynasty (1332 BCE)
Original piece at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Tutankhamun’s mask is one of the most emblematic pieces uncovered in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings. The original piece covered the young king’s mummy, and it is made of almost 11 kilos worth of gold. The nemes headdress covering his head is decorated with glass paste bands and his eyebrows are made of lapis lazuli.
Material: Metall
Höhe: 54 cm; Breite: 41cm; Tiefe: 48cm
exhibits 2 – Reclining gazelle (replica)
Original made of polychrome calcite
18th dynasty (1332 BCE)
Original piece at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
The original piece was discovered in the funerary chamber of Tutankhamun’s tomb. It portrays a gazelle showing its tongue, a characteristic depicted in many of the sculptures of mammals from Pharaonic times and whose meaning is still a mystery.
Material: Epoxi
Höhe: 17,5 cm; Breite: 7,5 cm; Tiefe: 16,5cm
exhibits 3 – Iron dagger of Tutankhamun (replica)
Original made of iron, gold and crystal.
18th dynasty (1332 BCE)
Original piece at the Gran Egyptian Museum (GEM), Cairo
Two daggers appeared among the mummy's bandages. One of them was made of iron. The study of the metal showed that it was iron from a meteorite. Other iron objects such as necklace clasps and awl points were also found in the tomb.
Höhe: 35 cm; Breite: 5 cm; Tiefe: 5cm
Höhe: 23 cm; Breite: 5 cm; Tiefe: 2,5cm
exhibits 4 – Headrest of Tutankhamun (replica)
Original made of turquoise blue glass.
18th dynasty (1332 BCE)
Original piece at the Gran Egyptian Museum (GEM), Cairo
The headrest is one of the most popular pieces of furniture in Egyptian tombs. It used to be placed with a cushion under the head for sleeping. Today it is still used in Japan and some parts of Africa. In this case it has a gold band on which we see the name of the pharaoh.
Material: Epoxi
Höhe: 19 cm; Breite: 28 cm; Tiefe: 9,5 cm
exhibits 5 – The goddess Selket (replica)
Original made of wood and gold.
18th dynasty (1332 BCE)
Original piece at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
The chapel protecting the canopic vessels used in the mummification and discovered in the Treasure Chamber was protected on its four sides by Isis and her three sisters, one of whom is Selket. Above her head we see the symbol of the scorpion with which she was identified.
Material: Epoxi
Höhe: 39 cm (inkl. Basis) ; Breite: 29 cm; Tiefe: 9 cm
exhibits 6 – Head of a panther (replica)
Original made of wood gold and blue paste.
18th dynasty (1332 BCE)
Original piece at the Gran Egyptian Museum (GEM), Cairo
In one of the tomb's chests, Carter discovered priest's robes. One of them, in very poor condition, still bore the head of a panther. This is the garment worn by the priests, made of an animal skin in which the original head was replaced by a smaller one.
Material: Epoxi
Höhe: 15 cm ; Breite: 15 cm; Tiefe: 4 cm
exhibits 7 - Queen Tiyi, Grandmother of Tutankhamun (replica)
Original made of limestone.
18th dynasty (1332 BCE)
Original piece at Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
This relief has an extraordinary image of the great Royal Wife, Tiyi, the main wife of Amenophis III, Tutankhamun's grandparents. In the tomb of the Boy King some of his grandmother's objects were found, which were probably left there by Tutankhamun himself to reinforce the great bond between him and his grandmother.
Material: Gips
Höhe: 45 cm ; Breite: 45 cm; Tiefe: 3 cm
exhibits 8 - Head of a princess of Amarna (replica)
Original made of limestone.
18th dynasty (1332 BCE)
Original piece at the Louvre Museum, Paris
We do not know who Tutankhamun's real parents were, although it is very likely that they were Akhenaton and Nefertiti, or a secondary wife named Kiya. In any case, Akhenaton's daughters were half-sisters of Tutankhamun, and this figure represents one of them.
Material: Harze
Höhe: 21 cm ; Breite: 10 cm; Tiefe: 9,5 cm
exhibits 9 - The Illustrated Londosn News (facsimile)
Original in paper and ink.
Saturday, December 16, 1922,
The media echoed the sensational discovery. Front pages such as this one in The Illustrated London News were full of photographs and drawings of the excavation taken by tourists and special envoys.
Material: Paper
Höhe: 29,5 cm ; Breite: 20,5 cm
exhibits 10 - Plan of the Antechamber (facsimile)
Original in paper and ink.
1920s
Original at the Griffith Institute, Oxford
The first thing Carter saw when he introduced his lamp was the Antechamber. This drawing by the architects Hall and Hauser describes very well the chaotic state of the thousands of objects in the narrow room.
Material: Paper
Höhe: 8,5 cm ; Breite: 6,5 cm
exhibits 11 - Set of photographs of the treasury (facsimile)
Original in paper.
1920s
Original at the Griffith Institute, Oxford
Harry Burton was an English photographer who worked for the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Carter did not hesitate to contact him to photograph the tomb. His images have become a true classic in the history of archaeology. Although Burton was an archaeologist, he has gone down in history as a photographer.
Material: Paper
Höhe: 52 cm ; Breite: 45 cm
exhibits 12 - Plan of the tomb by H. Carter (facsimile)
Original in paper and ink.
1920´s
Original at the Griffith Institute, Oxford
Tutankhamun's tomb was small and did not correspond to the standards of the time for a conventional royal tomb. This is why even today there are still doubts about its origin and the existence of hidden chambers.
Material: Paper
Höhe: 29,5 cm ; Breite: 24 cm
exhibits 13 - Drawing of the shrines (facsimile)
Original in paper and ink.
1920s
Original at the Griffith Institute, Oxford
One of the complexities of Tutankhamun’s funerary chamber is the position of the shrines and coffins, placed within one another, as perfectly reflected by this drawing made by Walter Hauser and Lindsley Foot Hall, two American artists that worked with Carter.
Material: Paper
Höhe: 29,5 cm ; Breite: 24 cm
exhibits 14 - Howard Carter’s diary (facsimile)
Original in paper and ink.
November 4, 1922
Original at the Griffith Institute, Oxford
On Saturday, November 4, 1922, Howard Carter wrote a simple sentence in his field diary: ‘First step of tomb found’. He was not aware then of what was ahead of him, the biggest archaeological discovery of all time.
Material: Paper
Höhe: 24 cm ; Breite: 19,5 cm
exhibits 15 - Howard Carter’s card (facsimile)
Original in paper and ink.
1920s
Original at the Griffith Institute, Oxford
Howard Carter was an extraordinary artist and a methodical digger. Each discovered object was drawn and photographed, both as part of a group and individually. On this card we can see the royal necropolis seal, depicting Anubis over nine bound captives, which was placed on the entrance to the tomb.
Material: Paper
Höhe: 20,5 cm ; Breite: 12,5 cm
exhibits 16 - Drawing of the mummy thorax by Carter (facsimile)
Original in paper and ink.
1920s
Original at the Griffith Institute, Oxford
Howard Carter never stopped using his extraordinary drawing skills as a tool in his excavation work. This drawing recreates the mummy of the young pharaoh showing the exact position of the amulets and necklaces he wore.
Material: Paper
Höhe: 32,1 cm ; Breite: 25,1 cm
exhibits 17 - Drawing of a horse by Carter (facsimile)
Original in paper and ink.
1920s
Original at the Griffith Institute, Oxford
Six chariots were found in Tutankhamun's tomb. Some parts were damaged, but many of the decorative elements that the horses must have carried, and which Carter recreated in this beautiful work, could still be reconstructed.
Material: Paper
Höhe: 29,4 cm ; Breite: 21,1 cm