File TAA ii.21 - The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: statement with documents: original documentation used for

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Presented by Sir Alan Gardiner in 1956. Formerly part of Carter MSS (Carter MSS vi.13A). Transferred to the Tutankhamun Archive in the 1990s.

• Letters and documents relating to Howard Carter's dispute with the Egyptian Government after the European team members' wives were barred from entering the tomb to view the contents of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus after the lid had been lifted (12 February 1924).
• The dispute on the following day, 13 February 1924, eventually resulted in Howard Carter and the rest of the team being locked out of the tomb until 13 January 1925.
• Includes correspondence between Sir Alan Gardiner and the Foreign Office, Egyptologists and others in 1924.
• Referred to as the "Carter Affair" or "Tutankhamun Affair".

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

• Carter, Howard 1999. Tut.ankh.amen: the politics of discovery (OEB 35822).