A new exhibition reappraises the work of Harry Burton, who photographed the decade-long Tutankhamun excavation. The collection is a striking record of a groundbreaking moment in our study of the past.
It was one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries of the 20th Century.
But what was it like to first point a lens into the 3,000-year-old tomb of King Tutankhamun?
That job fell to Harry Burton. He took more than 3,400 photographs of the treasures uncovered by Egyptologist Howard Carter in a decade-long investigation of the famous site.
Now, Burton's photos - many previously unpublished - are on show at Cambridge University.
Prof Christina Riggs is the first to study the collection in its entirety. From the prints, negatives and rejects, she says that fascinating new perspectives on the astonishing discovery - made in 1922 - have begun to emerge.
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