Картер Г., Мейс А. Тутанхамон: гробница египетского фараона, открытая Карнарвоном и Картером.
Первое издание на русском языке.
С приложениями статей профессоров Н.Д. Флиттнер и Г. Штейндорфа;
Перевод с немецкого А.Г. Горнфельда.
Москва-Ленинград: Государственное изд-во, 1927 г.
Тираж 3000 экз.
139 с., XXIV табл. ил. Твердый издательский переплет с золотым тиснением. Немного увеличенный формат (24,5х17 см).
***
[A Decisive Event in Egyptology. First Russian-language edition]
Carter G., Mace A. Tutankhamun: The Tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh Discovered by Carnarvon and Carter.
With appendices of articles by professors N.D. Flittner and G. Steindorf;
Translated from German by A.G. Gornfeld.
Moscow-Leningrad: State Publishing House, 1927
Edition of 3000 copies
139 p., XXIV tables ill. Hardcover publisher's cover with gold embossing. Slightly enlarged format (24.5 x 17 cm).
The book is a preliminary report on the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 by Carter and Carnarvon. Accompanied by 24 pages of photographs of the treasures found. The first publication of the notes of the English archaeologist G. Carter in Russian translation.
The course of archaeological work, the methods and techniques of excavations, the methods of preserving and transporting the diverse contents of the tomb, including the royal mummy, are described. An overview and artistic analysis of the most interesting examples of ancient Egyptian art and craft buried with the pharaoh are given, as well as the results of an anatomical examination of the mummy, which are interesting for an anthropologist and historian.
Howard Carter (1874-1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who made the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor in 1922, which is recognized as one of the decisive and most famous events in Egyptology.
