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«Habíamos estado excavando (en el Valle de los Reyes) durante seis temporadas enteras... habíamos trabajado durante meses en una franja de tierra sin encontrar nada y solo un excavador sabe lo desesperantemente deprimente que eso puede resultar... nos estábamos preparando para dejar el Valle cuando en un último esfuerzo desesperado hicimos un descubrimiento que sobrepasaba con mucho nuestros sueños más audaces.»
Este descubrimiento, equiparable...
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November 4, 1922. For six seasons the legendary Valley of the Kings has yielded no secrets to Howard Carter and his archeological team: "We had almost made up our minds that we were beaten," he writes, "and were preparing to leave The Valley and try our luck elsewhere; and then--hardly had we set hoe to ground in our last despairing effort than we made a discovery that far exceeded our wildest dreams." Join Howard Carter in his fascinating odyssey...
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"First steps of tomb found," British archaeologist Howard Carter excitedly wrote across a page of his pocket diary on November 4, 1922. The next day's excavation in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile River would reveal a tantalizing entrance. He quickly sent a telegram to Lord Carnarvon, who had been sponsoring his (mostly unsuccessful) investigations of Egyptian antiquities for several years and had reluctantly backed this final...
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460 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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El descubrimiento del siglo. El legado de una civilización inigualable. El tesoro de Tutankhamón es uno de los temas más fascinantes de la egiptología, pero la biografía de quienes sacaron a la luz el increíble mundo del antiguo Egipto no se queda atrás. En Cosas maravillosas no solo se habla del Faraón Niño y del contexto en el que vivió, sino también de la empresa arqueológica más grande de todos los tiempos: la expedición que culminó...
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The remarkable story of the chance meeting that transformed penniless, ostracised archaeologist Howard Carter into a household name following his discovery of the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun.
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199 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Ahmed is an apprentice photographer in Egypt who becomes involved in Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon's hunt for the final resting place of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun and his treasures. Will Ahmed help the team to uncover Tutankhamun's tomb? And will he fall victim to the tomb's supposed curse?
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"During the reign of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun ruled and died tragically young. In order to send him on his way into the afterlife, his tomb was filled with every treasure he would need after death. And then, it was lost to time, buried in the sands of the Valley of the Kings. His tomb was also said to be cursed. Centuries later, as Egypt-mania gripped Europe, two Brits -- a rich earl with a habit for gambling and a disreputable,...
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6 videodiscs (approximately 1071 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As the third season begins, Mulder is missing and assumed dead. Scully experiences a vision in which he is still alive. Yet even as the partners are reunited, each must deal with additional personal loss, tragedies that ultimately serve to strengthen their connection to each other. They soon find themselves depending on that strength as familiar foes resurface and preconceived notions are shattered.
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