Though the exhibition, on view through Februat the University of Oxford’s Weston Library in Oxford, England, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the find, it also criticizes and interrogates the prevailing narrative. “ Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive” goes beyond “colonialist popular stereotypes” to showcase the “humanity of the modern and ancient people who worked on the tomb,” says Richard Bruce Parkinson, an Egyptologist at Oxford and the exhibition’s co-curator, in a statement. (© Griffith Institute, University of Oxford Removal of the wall between the antechamber and the burial chamber Now, a new exhibition in England shines a light on the Egyptian workers who made the find possible-most of whom were left out of the historical record. To this day, historians are unable to match the names of the few Egyptian workers they do know to the faces of local men who were present at every stage of the painstakingly photographed discovery.
Many skilled Egyptian workers made the discovery possible to begin with.But though dozens of unnamed Egyptian men and children performed much of the intense physical labor at the site-and shared their local knowledge and specialized skills-self-taught British archaeologist Howard Carter got all of the credit for the find. In November 1922, British archaeologists made history when they found the long-sought-after tomb of King Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
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