{"id":177604,"date":"2021-11-25T22:43:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/for-years-it-has-been-said-that-a-child-discovered-the-tomb-of-tutankhamun-it-is-a-legend-that-we-wanted-to-believe\/"},"modified":"2021-11-25T22:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:13:18","slug":"for-years-it-has-been-said-that-a-child-discovered-the-tomb-of-tutankhamun-it-is-a-legend-that-we-wanted-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/for-years-it-has-been-said-that-a-child-discovered-the-tomb-of-tutankhamun-it-is-a-legend-that-we-wanted-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"For years it has been said that a child discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun. It is a legend that we wanted to believe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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History is not only written by the victors, but also by those whom we identify as an authorized source. Stakeholders, the press and even the plausibility of a story, which changes with the times.<\/p>\n

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For years it was thought that the all-important find of Tutankhamun’s tomb made it Howard Carter<\/strong>. There is no doubt that he was one of the main promoters of archeology, as well as the leader of the excavations in the Valley of the Kings, opposite Luxor. Nor that it was this Briton who commanded the expedition that November 4, 1922<\/strong>, when the site was found that would change Egyptology forever.<\/p>\n

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But time has wanted to give a new interpretation of the facts. An addendum to the original account can be found in most current sources, also official. We are told that one good morning the boy who brought jars of water to the team tripped on a stone<\/strong> which turned out to be the beginning of a staircase. According to some he was playing and according to others he was stirring the sand. Discovering what looked like a material molded by the hand of man, he plugged the rock and ran to find Carter to take all the credit.<\/p>\n

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Thus, over and over again in recent times, the film has changed: it was not a Briton and, in part, a colonizing force, who found the remains of the “child pharaoh”, but a native child by a stroke of luck<\/strong>. The history of Egyptian archeology is pregnant with rapes of doubtful legitimacy and half of the heritage of those lands is kept under lock and key in the British Museum. Returning the credit for the discovery to the Egyptian people through the water boy seems not only plausible, but a historical reparation.<\/p>\n

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The anecdote that occurred in 1922 (and which was not discussed until 1978)<\/h2>\n

The family of Hussein Abd el-Rassul<\/strong>, who is believed to be the legitimate boy in the jars who worked hand in hand with Carter in 1922. This Sheikh has on occasion posed next to the portrait of a boy who wears the famous Tutankhamun necklace<\/strong>, a dazzling gold matching chain set with five lapis lazuli beetles and inlays of carnelian, turquoise, feldspar and glass. Its value is, of course, incalculable.<\/p>\n

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