The Face of Tutankhamun

by Christopher Frayling and Dina Nayeri

Book Overview

In a five-part series for the BBC, the author of this book presents the case of King Tut to mark the 70th anniversary of the opening of his tomb. This book uses extracts from the diaries of Lord... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571168450
• ISBN13: 9780571168453
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent collection of facts and fiction

In this collection of stories ranging from Carter's discovery of the tomb to the abuse the Pharaoh's remains have been subjected to at the time of Professor Derry's autopsy in 1925, Frayling provides a vivid glimpse of the effect it had on popular imagination. The discovery itself has been sufficiently covered in other publications but the societal impact on film and literature is of considerable interest. So is the Forbes' theory about Tutankhamen's death as a result of a crushing injury to the chest. This assumption is, however, unlikely because the absence of the sternum upon which the theory rests, was in all probability a postmortem artifact and resulted from Carter's attempt to free the gold mask (which covered part of the chest) from the consolidated unguents which had been poured over the body in great profusion. On the whole the book makes a nice present for people interested in Tutankhamen.