The seal of Tutankhamun's tomb, before it was opened on November 4, 1922.
It consisted of an arm-shaped knot wrapped around one of the handles and a clay stamp (on the right) with the figure of the jackal god Anubis.
This lock remained intact for 3245 years, until English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter, who led the project to search and find King Tut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, took this photo and opened it.
The words of the famous Egyptologist Howard Carter, written when the tomb was found sealed, were as follows:
"At last I have made a marvelous discovery in the valley, a magnificent tomb with intact seals," Howard Carter wrote in a telegram to Lord Carnavon on November 6, 1922.
"A sealed door! (... ) With an excitement that turned into feverish ardor I searched for the door stamps, in search of evidence of the identity of the owner of the place," continued the Egyptologist, who at that time found only "the known seal of the royal necropolis, the jackal and nine captives." They were the intact seals of the tomb of a King, King Tutankhamun.
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