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Photographing Tutankhamun: How the Camera Helped Create “King Tut”
November 8, 2018 @ 6:00 pm EST
Sponsored by: Harvard Semitic Museum
Christina Riggs, Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology,
University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
When Howard Carter found the sealed entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, he secured the services of archaeological photographer Harry Burton to document the site. Over the course of ten years, Burton produced more than 3,000 glass negatives of the tomb, its contents, and the many people—including Egyptian men, women, and children—who participated in the excavation. Christina Riggs will discuss how Burton’s photography helped create “King Tut” at a pivotal time for both Egypt and archaeology, and how revisiting these images today is changing perceptions of twentieth-century archaeological research in Egypt.
Lecture. Free and open to the public.
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Free event parking available at 52 Oxford Street Garage
Presented by Harvard Semitic Museum with support from the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund
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