In the Valley of the Kings (28 page)

35.
“a man who did not suffer”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1, quoted in Reeves and Taylor,
Howard Carter
, 24.

36.
“Exploring on foot”
Caton-Thompson,
Mixed Memoirs
, 84.

36.
“unconsidered trifles”
W. M. Flinders Petrie,
Seventy Years in Archaeology
(London: Methuen, 1931), 19.

37.
“The observation of the small things”
Ibid.

37.
“I traveled here”
James H. Breasted,
Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents
, Vol. I (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906), 212.

38.
“The key to archaeology”
Petrie,
Ten Years’ Digging
, 158.

39
“I found him puzzling”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1, quoted in Reeves and Taylor,
Howard Carter
, 24.

39.
cartonnage
I am indebted to Margaret Drower for her comparison between cartonnage and papier-mâché. Drower,
Flinders Petrie
, 149.

40.
“It is no use”
Petrie journal, January 3–9, 1892, in the Petrie Museum, University College London, cited in James,
Howard Carter
, 36.

40.
“the stealthy convergence of human lots”
George Eliot,
Middle-march
(New York: Bantam Books, 1985), 85.

41.
“Even the British Museum”
Petrie to Edwards, April 1988, quoted in Drower,
Flinders Petrie
, 138.

CHAPTER 4

44 “dead men on leave”
Christopher C. Lee,
The Grand Piano Came by Camel: Arthur C. Mace, the Neglected Archaeologist
(Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1992).

44 “short, round headed”
Drower,
Flinders Petrie
, 137.

44.
“a procession of gilt mummies”
Ibid., 138, and Leo Deuel,
Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: A Documentary Portrait Drawn from His Autobiographical Writings, Letters and Excavation Reports
(New York: Harper & Row, 1977).

45.
“Degradation is followed”
W. M. Flinders Petrie,
Diospolis Parva: The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, 1898–9
(London: Egyptian Exploration Fund, 1901).

46.
“It is certainly”
Drower,
Flinders Petrie
, 138.

46.
“one of the greatest applied”
D. G. Kendall, “Some Problems and Methods in Statistical Archaeology,”
World Archaeology
I (1969): 68ff. For further elucidation, see “A Statistical Approach to Flinders Petrie’s Sequence Dating,”
Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute
40 (1963): 657ff.

47.
“A new scientific truth”
Max Planck,
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
, F. Gaynor, trans. (New York: Philosophical Library, 1949), 33–34.

47
“in the strongest terms”
Drower,
Flinders Petrie
, 138.

47.
“the struggle for existence”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1, quoted in Reeves and Taylor,
Howard Carter
, 30.

48.
“smelly dining salon”
Ibid.

49
Photos of Alexandria in the 1890s
Robert T. Harrison,
Imperialism in Egypt: Techniques of Domination
(Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1995). The photos mentioned are from the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, Lady Anna Brassey Collection.

51.
“With our luggage”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1.

52.
Eadweard Muybridge
Men Wrestling; Animal Locomotion, plate 345. CF Tomb #13 in Percy Newberry,
Beni Hasan I–IV
(London: Egyptian Exploration Fund Archaeological Survey Memoirs, 1893–1900).

52
“horrified”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1.

52
“The modus operandi in force”
Ibid.

52
“I was young”
Ibid.

54
“Bread, water and onions!”
Newberry to Edwards, November 28, 1892, Egyptian Exploration Society Archives XII d.54.

57
“There was not the slightest idea”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1.

57
“There were rumours abroad”
Ibid.

CHAPTER 5

59
“From there we trailed”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1, quoted in Reeves and Taylor,
Howard Carter
, 32.

61
“thoughtless implacable men”
Weigall,
Tutankhamen, 175.

61
“ground strewn with yellow fragments”
Ibid.

61.
“Fraser and Blackden returned”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1, quoted in Reeves and Taylor,
Howard Carter
, 32.

62.
Blackden and Fraser published “their” discovery
Blackden and Fraser, “Collection of Hieratic Graffiti from the Alabaster Quarries of Hat-Nub, Situated Near Tell El Amarna, Found December 28th, 1891, Copied September 1892,”
Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology
XVI (January 1894): 73ff.

62
“In all such archaeological research”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1.

62
In 1923, Newberry and Fraser
For a follow-up of the quarrel still raging thirty years later, see T.G.H. James, “The Discovery and Identification of the Alabaster Quarries of Hatnub,”
Cahier de recherches de l’Institut de Papyrologie et d’Égyptologie de Lille
13 (Lille: Mélanges Jacques Jean Clère, 1991), 79–84.

63
“In a week’s time”
Ibid.

63
“I resolutely avoided any possible entanglement”
Petrie to Hilda Urlin, between October 1896 and November 29, 1987, in possession of the Petrie family, quoted in Drower,
Flinders Petrie
, 233–237.

64
“Overwork is a necessity”
Ibid. 64
the remotest deserts in Syria
Ibid.

64.
“Petrie is a very bad sleeper”
Weigall to Newberry, undated [1902?], from a typescript sent to Hankey by Margaret Gardiner, quoted in Hankey,
A Passion
, 32.

65.
“I cannot again live”
Petrie to Hilda Urlin, between October 1896 and November 29, 1987, in possession of the Petrie family, quoted in Drower,
Flinders Petrie
, 233–237.

66.
Carter returned from leave
Breasted, Pioneer
, 342. The colleagues involved are Percy Newberry and James Quibell.

PART THREE: THE WORLD OF NEBKHEPERURE HEKAIUNUSHEMA TUTANKHAMUN

EPIGRAPH

67
“Behold! A reed”
Inscribed walking stick, 71⅜ inches long. Find #229. For a photo of the find, see Nicholas Reeves,
The Complete Tutankhamun
(London: Thames & Hudson, 1995), 178.

CHAPTER 6

71
“What may capture our interest”
Cyril Aldred, “Hairstyles and History,”
MMA Bulletin
15, no. 6 (February 1957): 141–147.

71
It was a sign
Dominic Montserrat suggestively explores the Amarna period’s meaning for modernity in
Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt
(London and New York: Routledge Press, 2000).

73
“striking, almost beautiful”
Nicholas Reeves and Richard H. Wilkinson,
The Complete Valley of the Kings
(London: Thames & Hudson, 1996).

75
“visible and invisible reality”
Jan Assman,
The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs
(Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2003), 216.

77 “marvelous but vulnerable”
J. P. Allen, “Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts,”
Yale Egyptological Studies
2 (New Haven: Yale Egyptological Seminar, 1988): 313.

77 “Rib Hadda says to his lord”
William Moran,
The Amarna Letters
(Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), 185–190.

77 “Gulba is in danger”
Ibid.

77 “If this year”
Ibid.

77 “Rib Hadda says: whenever the king”
Ibid.

79
“praised together with the perfect god”
Cyril Aldred,
Akhenaten, Pharaoh of Egypt: A New Study
(London: Thames & Hudson, 1968), 94.

79.
“Khuenaten is seated upon a throne”
Carter to Newberry, April 7, 1892, GI, Newberry mss., I.8/3, quoted in James,
Howard Carter
, 43.

80.
“I was one who was instructed”
Aldred,
Akhenaten
, 94.

80
“The rows of complex columns”
Norman de Garis Davies,
The Rock Tombs of El Amarna
(London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903–1908), 8.

CHAPTER 7

83
“I had to run”
GI, Carter mss., VI.2.1, quoted in Reeves and Taylor,
Howard Carter
, 36.

83
“Excuse my shaky handwriting”
Carter to Newberry, February 14, 1892, GI, Newberry correspondence 8/1.

84
“a subtle recognition of the facts”
GI, Carter mss., VI. 2.1, quoted in Reeves and Taylor,
Howard Carter
, 40.

85
“In the course of my work”
Ibid.

89
Driving through traffic in a taxi
On March 26, 1903, Carter brought Thutmosis IVs mummy to be examined by Grafton Elliot Smith in the presence of Lord Cromer.