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On May 12th 142 press photographs of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter are going for sale by auction at Sotheby's. The photos were taken by by Harry Burton (1879-1940): "Harry Burton had been hired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1914 to make a photographic record of ancient Egyptian monuments at Thebes and to serve as the official photographer for the Museum's excavation team. When the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922 the Museum's Egyptian Expedition offered the services of its staff to Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, and Burton spent the next eight years photographing the tomb and its treasures".
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