Yet this extraordinary photograph of archaeologist Howard Carter slowly unveiling the Egyptian Pharaoh's coffin has never been seen in colour until now. A colourised version of a b/w photograph of Tutankhamun's inner, solid gold coffin, lying within the colourful middle coffin. Owned by Oxford's renowned Griffith Institute, the images from the Howard Carter Archive are shown in colour in forthcoming BBC documentary Tutankhamun In Colour. Other photographs portray Carter riding his horse around the temples of Luxor and the laborious 50-man operation to transport the 3,000- year-old artefacts. Elizabeth Frood, associate professor of Egyptology at Oxford University and a director of the Griffith Institute, who presents the programme, said the colour photographs show the discovery in a new light.

Source: Daily Mail June 06, 2020 23:00 UTC