Wikimedia Commons

File:Tête de Toutânkhamon enfant - 2 (musée du Caire Egypte).jpg

Tête_de_Toutânkhamon_enfant_-_2_(musée_du_Caire_Egypte).jpg ‎(635 × 600 pixels, file size: 80 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Description
Français : Tête de Toutânkhamon enfant émergeant d'une fleur de lotus, évocation de la régénération permanente du Roi.

La tombe de Toutankhamon (1340-1331 AV. J.C.) a été découverte par Howard Carter en novembre 1922.

Le pharaon est mort à 19 ans, sa momie se trouvait dans un cercueil en or massif, placé à l'intérieur de 2 cercueils en bois. Ces 3 cercueils étaient dans un sarcophage de quartzite à couvercle de granit rouge.

Autour du sarcophage, s'emboîtaient les unes dans les autres, 4 chapelles en bois doré qui occupaient entièrement la salle du sarcophage.
English: Head of Tutankhamun emerging from a lotus flower, evoking the permanent regeneration of the King.

The tomb of Tutankhamen (1340-1331 BC) was discovered by Howard Carter in November 1922.

The Pharaoh died at age 19. His mummy was in a solid gold coffin placed inside 2 wooden coffins. These three coffins were in a quartzite sarcophagus with a red granite lid.

Around the sarcophagus, four gilded wooden chapels clustered in one another, completely occupying the room of the sarcophagus.
Date
Source originally posted to Flickr as Tête de Toutânkhamon enfant (musée du Caire / Egypte)
Author Jean-Pierre Dalbéra
Permission
(Reusing this file)
This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 29 August 2008, 23:55 by Dorieo. On that date, it was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the license indicated.
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current23:55, 29 August 2008Thumbnail for version as of 23:55, 29 August 2008635 × 600 (80 KB)Flickr upload bot (talk | contribs)Uploaded from http://flickr.com/photo/72746018@N00/1815600644 using Flickr upload bot

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Tête_de_Toutânkhamon_enfant_-_2_(musée_du_Caire_Egypte).jpg&oldid=859797533"