Daniela Roesner
Dr Daniela Rosenow, Egyptologist and Manager of the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford, expert on the Tutankhamun excavation archive.
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Oct 8, 2026
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This is a glass plate negative, and this is how Harry Burton took most of his, of his images.
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So he would use that camera, put in the, the glass plate, and then take the shot, and then he developed all of them in the nearby tomb.
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It is estimated that altogether he developed around 3,000 of these images in his little dark room in the tomb nearby.
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Here we see the bottom part of the outer coffin and then the middle coffin still covered, partly covered with the shrouds.
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And this is the moment he's exposing the face of the king and just in the process of removing the linen.
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Although not his face yet, because it's covered by this, this amazing mask.