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How is Tutankhamun’s legacy shaped by colonialism?

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Howard Carter and the Body Decapitated Tuna Goman

The gold mask isn't revealed to the public until, by through photographs in February 1926. Howard Carter and his team of Egyptian archaeologists face how to dismantle the massive gilded wooden shrines that fill the entire burial chamber. The body is totally stuck wrapped up in an inside this coffin. It would have smelled wonderful with its poured all over the body but the whole thing is stuck fast.

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