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King Tut
JUNE 2005
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Rare Opportunity
Photograph by Kenneth Garrett
In King Tut's cramped burial chamber a team of archaeologists and technicians examines the gilded wooden lid of the teenage pharaoh's outer coffin. Normally the lid covers Tut's mummy deep inside a monumental quartzite sarcophagus, but this evening—January 5, 2005—it has been removed so Tut can be lifted out and scanned by computed tomography, or CT. In the next few minutes workers will carry the mummy—cradled in a shallow wooden box—to a specially equipped trailer parked just outside the rock-cut subterranean tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
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Photo Fast Facts
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Camera: Nikon F5
Film Type: Fujichrome 64
Lens: 17-35mm, f/2.8
Speed and F-Stop: 1/8 @ f/4
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Weather Conditions: Indoors
Time of Day: Night
Lighting Techniques: Tungsten lights
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