Quotes by Howard Carter - Page 1

Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Church
Let Me
Love Thyself
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Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Operations
Commenced
Valley
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They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Seals
Bearing
Types
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It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Discovery
Obvious
Threshold
Became
Soon
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It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Precedent
Seeing
Sight
Surpassing
Vision
Dreamed
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All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Himself
Onion
Peel
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Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Evidence
Seals
Sufficient
Appearances
Entrance
Intact
Outward
Sufficient Evidence
Tomb
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We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Beauty
Impression
Objects
Overwhelming
Refinement
Surpassing
Astonished
Could
Displayed
Imagined
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The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Congratulations
Country
Discovery
Inquisitive
News
Spread
Daily
Programme
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As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Cutting
Western
Partly
Slope
Thus
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Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Clean
Doorways
Lasts
Rubbish
Doorway
Floor
Passage
Remaining
Scraps
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Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Doorways
Levels
Sufficient
Sunset
Cleared
Doorway
Expose
Towards
Large
Large Part
Portion
Sealed
Step
Upper
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These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the fourth of Nov.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Ancient
Covering
Fourth
Investigation
Rubbish
Below
Cleared
Hut
Planned
Undertaking
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After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Afternoon
Clearing
Descending
Replica
Doorway
Exact
Passage
Sealed
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With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Evidence
Guardian
Statues
Dawned
Doorway
Gradually
Portion
Sealed
Tomb
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We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Admission
Crowded
Objects
Obliged
Poor
Preparation
Preservation
Quantity
Refuse
Unprepared
Visitors
Totally
Large
Safeguard
View
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Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Missing
Valleys
Years
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I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a feeling of intrusion had descended heavily upon us... We felt that we were in the presence of the dead King and must do him reverence, and in imagination could see the doors of the successive shrines open one.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Kings
Science
Thinking
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As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water skins lying on the floor together with alabaster jars, whole and broken, and coloured pottery vases; all pertaining to some disturbed burial, but telling us nothing to whom they belonged further than by their type which was of the late XVIIIth Dyn. These were disturbing elements as they pointed towards plundering.
Howard Carter / Archaeologist
Broken
Lying
Small Objects
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