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He built his house there a blocky stucco structure with thick walls to keep out the desert heat and a domed roof to aid ventilation.
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And then, he became iconic for his 1922 discovery and excavation of the nearly intact tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings.Ĭarter’s life’s work was in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings-the desert location of the tombs of many of Egypt’s pharaohs on the west bank of the Nile. Because of his hard work, systematic methods, and his eye for detail, he worked his way up from teenage copy artist to the position of Inspector of Monuments for Upper Egypt. There, he used his artistic ability to gain a position copying the decorations in tombs undergoing excavation. Confusion resolved.Īfter a sickly childhood with little formal education, he found his way to Egypt in 1891, at the age of 17. Once source: “The original of the hieroglyph however is almost certainly to be found in the quail.” Oh! All those hieroglyph chicks are not chicken chicks. She didn’t understand the point of my question.
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There were no chicks 34 centuries ago, I told her. Then she explained that she supposed that in the early Bronze Age, over 34 centuries ago, before hieroglyphs’ sounds became established, the chick hieroglyph represented nothing more than a chick. What did the Egyptians use to represent those sounds before there were chickens, I asked. It is phonetically equivalent to either a “w” or “o” sound. She told me that the chick was very common because it represented a common sound. This confused me, so I asked our tour guide about it. I knew that hieroglyphics went back to the very beginning of Egyptian civilization. There were pictures of chicks everywhere among the hieroglyphics. As I visited the Cairo museums and toured the old tombs in the Valley of the Kings, the chicks surprised me.