Howard Carter is frequently credited with revealing the Tutankhamun cemetery, but many Egyptians took part in the enormous event. Their identities could only be ascertained through the photos of the Oxford exhibition currently on display in Britain, according to Daniela Rossinao, the project’s official at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies College.
We only know the names of the four department heads that Carter employed at Oxford University and who he referred to and praised in his publications: Ahmed Gregtar, Jad Hassan, Hussein Abu Awad, and Hussein Ahmed.
We also know Mohamed Saleh Hamdi Bey, an Egyptian doctor who participated in the autopsy of Tutankhamun and Hussein Abdel -Rasoul, a water boy who is considered according to some accounts of the first to arrive in the grave.
According to the website Live Science, a number of Egyptian scientists agreed that Howard Carter had a colonial mentality and tended to treat Egyptians and British people equally in his archaeological mission. Osama Jad, a professor of papyrology and comparative literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo, said: “I think it is He was generally arrogant not only against the Egyptians but also against other nationalities. He misused the efforts of h His team.
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Jad went on: “I have stated time and time again that the colonial era’s legacy weighs heavily on the landscape and that the achievements of the past century or more could not be undone in a short period of time. The Egyptians were still being unfairly marginalised.
No Egyptian official was permitted to visit the cemetery, but Carter planned to open the burial room and curse with his team and their spouses, according to Zahi Hawas, the former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, who made the observation.
Hawas said that this incident heightened the hostilities between Carter and the then-minister of antiquities, Marcus Hanna, and that Carter was eventually permitted to restart work on the site after Hanna was fired in 1924 and the Egyptian government changed in 1925.
According to Hawass, the Egyptians are currently in charge of some of the largest archaeological digs, and foreign archaeological groups are now in awe of our fossils. We can compete, but we’re not against foreign missions.
100 years on the discovery of Tutankhamun’s cemetery .. Who are the Egyptians taking part in the excavation?
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