Howard Carter and Lszl Kkosy

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Howard Carter and László Kákosy
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Howard Carter(1874-1939)

• Kensington
• At the age of 17 he set sail for Alexandria
• Bani Hassan he worked as a tracer, copied the
  scenes from the walls of the tombs

• 1899 he became the First Chief Inspector General
  of Monuments for Upper Egypt

a watercolour painting by him
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• 1905 he resigned because of an incident
• Re-stationed to Tanta
• Next four years as a watercolour painter and
  dealer in antiquities
• 1907 he met Lord Carnarvon

• Numbers of excavation but not spectacular
  discoveries, until 1922 when one of Carters
  labourers stumbled upon a stone step

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• The discovery of the tomb of the famous
  pharaohTUTANKHAMON
• Egyptian Pharaoh, reigning from 1361 B.C. to
  1352 B.C., during the 18th dynasty.

• In the Valley of the King
• More than 3500 findings,
• that was the richest tomb!

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• Returned to Kensington
• 1939 he died
• His discovery shook not only the world of
  Egyptology but caught the imagination of a much
  wider public!!!

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László Kákosy(1932-2003)

• Osbuda
• One of the gratest Hungarian Egyptologist!
• 1956 he admissioned to the Eötvös Loránd
  University
• He became the candidate of the Hungarian Academy
  of Science

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• 1964 an expedition to Abu-Simbel

• 19 years after
• 1983 he was the leader of a Hungarian expedition
  in the Cemetary of the Nobles

• The ground plan of the tomb

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• He spent years in Egypt getting into a closer
  connection with the people

• Liked the atmosphare
• That was his most imprtant discovery in his life

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• He died in 2003
• He taught generations of Egyptologists, and the
  disciplined amateurs collected the most of their
  knowledge from his books first of all The Sons
  of Ra, a general work on culture and history of
  Ancient Egypt, which commonly called The Kákosy

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• Elekné Farkas Emöke
• Thank
  you!!!