What artefacts where found in Tutankhamen’s Tomb?

I'm a newbie here so sorry if this has already been answered.

I have been looking around the web to discover a list of items that where found contained within King Tut's tomb? Does anybody know?

I think this is important because this tomb was apparently still sealed and had not been robbed like most of the other tomb which have been discovered over the years.

Why where the other tombs robbed off their artefacts?
Who do you think stole these items and where could they be now?

Could these tombs have contained secrets which modern day superpowers would like kept secret?

Your thoughts please ...... Thanks.

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You can go into more indepth at this website.

The items were stolen because they were gold, or made of precious wood and gems. Each one would have fed an egyptian worker for quite a while. Most tombs seemed to have been robbed by the people who built them, as they not only knew where they were but also what traps existed inside them.
As for where the gold is now, it might be anywhere. It might be a tiny fraction of the gold in a friends wedding ring. It would have been melted down 3000 years ago and reused again and again, or it might have been turned into coins at one point and could be in a cache somewhere. As for the secrets, Howard Carter didn't find any, and he wasn't working for the British Government.

The latest mystery by Egyptologist Elizabeth Peters actually details what's in the tomb... but there's many catalogs of it.
www.amazon.com...

I do recommend Peters. She's got a PhD in Egyptology and did excavate there back in the day. Her fiction is thoroughly grounded in knowledge of history and personalities and methods.

Here's her web page about this series of books:
www.ameliapeabody.com...

This book was particularly interesting because she mentions the controversy (and the timeline) around some speculation by professional archaeologists that Carter and his sponsor did indeed sneak in before the tomb was cleared and came away with treasures from it. Both men had extensive collections of gold and faience -- Peters actually "prevents" the crime in her fictional novel, but it's an interesting point to read about.

Peters also (in her earlier books) talks about the culture of Egypt at the time and the generations of tomb robbers that made their living from robbing these graves. There were a number of families where this was the family trade and they had strong connections to local dealers of "antiquities."

I highly recommend the series -- interesting fiction with a VERY solid cultural and scientific and historical background.


Here's Carter's diaries, by the way:
cat.inist.fr...

GRRRRR, kicking myself now because i cannot remember where i heard/read this...

The idea was that in some cases the tomb robbers may actually have been sponsered by pharohs themselves, and in a way it does make sense. Look at the wealth buried in Tut's tomb, and he was a relatively minor pharoh. One can only imagine what might have been buried with the more powerful ones. Stop and think a moment what this would do to a country's treasury.

Picture yourself as a pharoh just coming into power, knowing that what must be substantial portion of your kingdom's wealth was just buried along with the body of your predecessor. The craftsmen who built the tomb are most likely still around, so the details of the tomb itself would be available. Also, who could possibly be in a better position to make sure that the guards were absent or 'looking the other way' at a certain time.

Sorry i don't have any links to provide but i thought the idea was interesting

Tutankhamen's 'beautiful' face revealed 5th November 2007

I wouldn't give it a kiss because it's beautiful but there you go. Anyway here's the link under a short quote from it.



FULL STORY

this isn't the first time Tutankhamens face has been revealed. Photos taken of it have been circulating for decades. The first history book I owned showed his zombie like face when I was about seven which had been taken by Carter during the original expedition.

this site lists every artifact ever removed from the tomb
griffith.ashmus.ox.ac.uk...
with the possible exception of the stuff stolen by Carter

if i remember correctly wasn't there also a 'jewel' made out of an amber colored glass, which was actually taken from a 'glass mine' in the middle of the desert, in which the glass was formed by a Tremendous explosion a few meters above the ground,

The explosion must have been sooo intense to create the sheer amount of glass created from the scorched sand, that it wouldve been more powerful than several nuclear/atomic bombs detonated at equal height,

Something interesting i thought i'd point out :-)