King Tutankhamen in color
Harry Burton's photographs of the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, which are housed in the archive of the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford, have been digitally colorized by Dynamichrome on behalf of SC Exhibitions. All of these images are featured in the exhibition "The Discovery of King Tut" in New York.
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Oct. 29/30, 1925: Howard Carter and an Egyptian worker examine the third (innermost) coffin made of solid gold, inside the case of the second coffin in Tutankhamen's tomb. (Harry Burton / © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
Oct. 29/30, 1925: The gold mask in situ on the mummy of the king, still inside the third (innermost) solid gold coffin in Tutankhamen's tomb. (Harry Burton / © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
December 1923: The linen pall, decorated with bronze "rosettes" inside the first (outermost) golden shrine in the northwest corner of the burial chamber. (Harry Burton / © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
October 1926: The Anubis shrine on the threshold of the treasury, viewed from the burial chamber. The figure of Anubis was covered with a linen shirt inscribed with the cartouche of Tutankhamen's father, Akhenaten. (Harry Burton / © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
December 1922: Objects stacked under the lion couch (No. 35) against the west wall of the antechamber included an ivory and ebony chest (32), black "shrine-shaped boxes" (37 and 38) and a child's chair made of ebony (39). (Harry Burton / © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
October 1926: A line of chests down the center of the treasury, ending with the canopic chest that housed the king's linen-wrapped stomach, intestines, liver and lungs in miniature gold coffins, inside an alabaster canopic box. (Harry Burton / © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
Nov. 29, 1923: Howard Carter, left, works with his friend and colleague Arthur Callender on wrapping one of two sentinel statues of Tutankhamen found in the antechamber, before their removal to the "laboratory" set up in the tomb of Sethos II. These statues had been placed either side of the sealed entrance to the burial chamber. (Harry Burton / © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
November/December 1923: Arthur Mace, left, and Alfred Lucas work outside the tomb of Sethos II, stabilizing the surface of one of the state chariots found in the antechamber. (Harry Burton / © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
1923: Tourists crowd around the entrance to the tomb to watch a large object, possibly a couch from the antechamber, being removed from Tutankhamen's tomb, on its way to the workroom. (© Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
1923: Howard Carter, left, accompanies the body of one of Tutankhamen's chariots to the workroom. Made of wood, with rawhide tires, this chariot was highly decorated with gold, colored glass and stone inlay, and probably used on ceremonial occasions. (© Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, colorized by Dynamichrome)
