Wonderful Things

The richness of the treasures found in the tomb of Tutankhamun created a bitter conflict between Carter and the Egyptian authorities. With the sudden and dramatic death of Lord Carnarvon, Carter was left alone, without his sponsor, to deal with an increasingly tense political situation as Egyptian nationalists struggled to free themselves from British colonial rule. It was to take ten years for Carter and his team to clear the fantastic funerary objects from the tomb and to reveal the mortal remains of the king.