One of his renderings of Egyptian works, a painting in the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut.
Queen Ahmes, 1896.
Given this background it is perhaps not surprising that Carter's excavation drawings are among the most beautiful you will ever see. Above, Tutankhamun's coffin in its nested sarcophagi; below, collars on the kings mummy. These are from the Griffith Institute.
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