Led by the famed archaeologist George Reisner, the original excavators spent two years belly-down on mattresses as they used tweezers to collect each fragment from the tomb, roughly 100 feet below the earth’s surface. They took nearly 2,000 photographs of the crypt and filled thousands of pages with careful notes, documenting the dimensions, materials, and location of each shard…”
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