Philosophy
Howard Carter's voice--Valley of the Kings
Howard CarterMay 9th, 1874 to March 2nd, 1939 It is always interesting to hear the actual voice of an individual from the past...Howard Carter who discovered King Tutankhamun's tomb.Howard CarterClassic EgyptologyThanks to Andrea Byrnes.
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Deceased--john Howard Davies
John Howard Davies and Robert Newton
John Howard Davies
March 9th, 1939 to August 22nd, 2011
"John Howard Davies, the quintessential Oliver Twist, Dies at 72"
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Mark Wallace
August 23rd, 2011
Classic Films
John Howard Davies took...
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Physicist And Pentagon’s Top Deputy Puts The Brakes On Spending
"Revenge of the Nerd: Physicist Becomes Pentagon’s Top Deputy" by Noah Shachtman August 2nd, 2011 Wired Out with the defense-industry exec, and in with the physicist-turned-logistics-geek. Ashton Carter, the Oxford-educated scientist currently serving...
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Egyptian Protractor
The architect Kha helped to build pharaohs’ tombs during the 18th dynasty, around 1400 BC. His own tomb was discovered intact in 1906 by archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in Deir-al-Medina, near the Valley of the Kings. Among Kha’s belongings were...
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Bucks Behind Tut's Dig...george Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl Of Carnarvon
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon [right] at the opening of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon June 26th, 1866 to April 5th, 1923 Somebody has to pay for...
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Classic Egyptology
James Henry Breasted The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform...
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