The discovery of the tomb also led countries to begin keeping hold of their treasures.ĭr Brier says: “Previously, the general procedure was if you were an excavator in Egypt, you got to keep half of your finds. They believed you had to have the actual physical body to be resurrected in the next world… so the body had to look as good as possible.ĭr Brier says: “It is when the museum world learned a blockbuster exhibit will bring millions of people.” “It led them to be way ahead of their time in terms of medical science and cosmetic surgery.
He says: “I went to medical school and had an anatomical background, and I was fascinated by the significance of the human body in the afterlife for Egyptians. Other objects in the tomb were also made from iron that came from space.”ĭr Brier’s interest in Egyptology was sparked by his curiosity about the mummification process. Recent tests show an iron blade was hammered out of a meteorite which fell to Earth – literally out of space. “But Egypt did not have iron then, only copper and bronze. He explains: “Tut was buried with a beautiful dagger in his coffin. “These include beautiful gold collars and even gold nails from Tut’s coffin.”Ĭarter thought what he discovered was out of this world, and Dr Brier found things in the tomb which really were.
When he died, he also left his house and contents to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and they discovered they had about 10 objects from the tomb, which they gave back to Egypt. “It came from the tomb, no doubt about it.
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