
The Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb for Kids Tutankhamen
Saturday,
November 25
Opened first door.
A
corridor filled with rubble
On the morning
of November 25th, the sealed doorway was photographed and the seals
noted. Then the door was removed.
A passageway emerged from the darkness,
filled to the top with limestone rubble. Upon closer examination, Carter
could tell that the tomb robbers had dug a hole through the upper left section
of the passageway.
How did he know?
The hole had been refilled with larger, darker rocks
than used for the rest of the fill.
Did this
mean that the tomb had definitely already been robbed?
Carter
was very disappointed and afraid that this might be true.

The rubble was cleared
away to expose another sealed door, almost identical to the first. Once again,
there were signs that a hole had been made in the doorway and resealed.
Extract
from Howards Carters Diary:
'After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle
of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost
the exact replica of the first. It bore similar seal impressions and
had similar traces of successive reopenings and reclosings in the plastering.' |
Which room lay behind the second door?
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