One of these was a group of objects placed on a sort of carpet in a corner of the burial chamber, including four wooden emblems and four mysterious rectangular unfired clay trays. The excavation ...

The artefacts in focus are a set of four clay trays, approximately 7.5 x 4.0 x 1.2cm, plain in design and apparently quite utilitarian. This type of artefact is known from other funerary contexts ...

The artifacts in focus are a set of four clay trays, approximately 7.5 x 4.0 x 1.2cm, plain in design and apparently quite utilitarian. This type of artifact is known from other funerary contexts ...

When Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered the chamber in 1922, he logged its contents: chariots, furniture, alabaster vessels, priceless coffins—and a few small trays made of clay. The four ...

More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the burial are still emerging. A recent article published in the Journal of ...