Antique Horus Plique-a-Jour Egyptian Revival Bird Pendant Emerald measures 40

measures 40

Died Jan 9

attached to a bag

1 mm at the back

21 carats and altogether the diamond weight in these earrings is estimated at 3

Antique Horus Plique-a-Jour Egyptian Revival Bird Pendant Emerald measures 40Howard Carter had a hunch, and on the 26th of November 1922, in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, his hunch paid off. Big. Though conventional wisdom of the day said that all of the Royal tombs in Egypt's great Valley had been looted and emptied over the ages, Carter knew of one King whose tomb had never been found. The young boy King Tutankhamen; and he thought he knew where it was. For eight years, with the support of his benefactor, Lord Carnarvon,