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.
Photo Fast Facts
Camera: Nikon F5 Film Type: Fujichrome 64 Lens: 200mm Micro Nikkor Speed and F-Stop: 1 second @ f/16
Weather Conditions: Indoors Time of Day: Midday Lighting Techniques: Tungsten lights
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