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“Tell me’ said Valens. ‘What do your family make of Tilla?’…’Some of them quite like her’ said Ruso. ‘The rest are somewhere between horror and resignation.”
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“On October 13, 1925, Carter gazed upon the face of the first of the three elaborately gilded and inlaid coffins. A small wreath of olive leaves and flowers was still intact around the royal uraeus on the pharaoh’s brow.”
― Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery
― Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery
“I imagine the glittering serpent of the Great River, continuing from one end of the world to the other; and fanned out on either side the green and yellow patterns of the cultivation. Beyond that, the infinity of the Red Land, where the royal families build their tombs of eternal stone, and their attendant temples, on the margins of the wilderness, the desert, the place of great solitude.”
― Tutankhamun
― Tutankhamun
“For the moment – an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by – I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand in suspense any longer, inquired anxiously "Can you see anything?", it was all I could do to get out the words "Yes, wonderful things”.”
― The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
― The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen
“The plan was, naturally, flawless. All truly ingenious plans are flawless at the moment of their conception; their defects become apparent only later, when they encounter reality, which has an unfortunate tendency not to cooperate.”
― Special Assignments
― Special Assignments
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