Howard Casing

Howard Casing (born on May 9th, 1874 with Swaffham, Norfolk and dead on March 2nd, 1939 with London), is a Archéologue and British Egyptologist .

Biography

Howard Carter was born on May 9th, 1874, wire of a animalist painter, of which he inherited the talents of draftsman. It is seventeen years old when it is presented to Percy Newberry, a young Egyptologist of the Egypt Exploration Fund (created by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards), which urges it to recopy with the watercolour the frescos of the tombs of Beni Hassan.

Its excavations

Then, it connects on the funerary temple of Montouhotep {{II}}, with Deir el-Bahari. Immediately, the British is charmed by the Egypt, and it is impassioned for the excavations.

Quickly, here which works at the sides of Flinders Petrie, with Such el-Amarna, but, not being estimated by the Archéologue, considered for his soaked character, it is also quickly thanked. It returns then in Deir el-Bahari, in order to reproduce the low-reliefs of the temple of Amon, set up by Hatchepsout. It meets Gaston Maspero, which seems to appreciate it. In 1899, the French proposes to him a post of general inspector of the monuments in High-Egypt.

Beginning 1905, a group of French fortunate penetrate of force in Sérapéum and, not seeing anything, because of the too great darkness of the places, have the impertinence to claim that to them the tickets of entry of the site are refunded. Casing opposes a justified refusal, but the discussion is transformed into brawl. The visitors carry felt sorry for and Casing, refusing to excuse itself, resigns of the Service of Antiquities and turns over for a time to its brushes.

Lord Carnarvon, following an car accident, suffering of the chest and having to avoid the wet climate of the the United Kingdom, excavation since two years as an amateur, without much success. It wishes to associate the councils of a true man of ground. Maspero, which regrets having had to separate from Casing, presents it to the British aristocrat.

The two British will explore the necropolis thebaine, without significant result. Starting from 1912, here in the delta, that they must give up, following an invasion of cobras.

In 1915, they take again the concession, whose Theodore Monroe Davis, her predecessor in the Vallée of the kings, affirmed that it had delivered all its secrecies. After the team had exhumed earthenware jars and seals in the name of Toutânkhamon, Carter seeks there soon fall it from this sovereign, close to the rock base of the valley, where it supposes that it is.

In 1922, the thin discovered ones not having contributed to reduce the expenditure which Lord Carnarvon must support, that announces its intention to stop. Casing requires to continue one year more; he affirms that he will assume the cost of this additional year. Lord Carnarvon agrees to set out again for one year, and agree to finance this last countryside.

The discovery of the Tomb of Toutânkhamon

Casing, noting that its research close to the base of the valley is unfruitful, defers those on a perimeter of which it notes that no one prospected it forever. November 1st, the excavations start at the place even where the huts of the workmen of Davis were, when it found fall it from Ramsès {{IV}}. Carnarvon is with the the United Kingdom, when, the November 4th 1922 at dawn, one releases a walk, then others. The evening, Carter is in front of a door, carrying the seal of Anubis (which after inspection seems to have been already open), heralding that it is in front of the tomb of a large character.

The journalists on the spot, needing to produce articles, will give birth to the legend from the Malédiction of the Pharaon: Carnavon dies, victim of a septicaemia due to a wound made while shaving on a puncture of mosquito; many scientists, already old at the time of the discovery, die thereafter. However, Carter which was the first to be penetrated in the tomb, died out only in 1939, of a cirrhosis of the Foie at the 65 years age, that is to say 17 years after the discovery of the tomb of Toutânkhamon.

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