The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents The Man Who Shot Tutankhamun

Travel back in time to Egypt with Margaret Mountford, PhD, as she uncovers the story of Harry Burton, unsung hero of photography: the man whose images of the Tutankhamun excavation created a global sensation in the 1920s. Mountford explores the spectacular locations where Burton worked, including Tutankhamen’s tomb and surrounding temples, to investigate just how his photographs of archaeologist Howard Carter made him an international celebrity as well as inspiring a craze for Egyptian designs.
 
Mountford works with present-day photographer, Harry Cory Wright, retracing Burton’s steps to reveal how he pushed the boundaries of photographic art under the relentless Egyptian sun and dangerous site locations to create his extraordinary pictures of the world’s most famous archaeological discovery.
 
The tomb of Tutankhamun, also known by its tomb number, KV62, is the burial place of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1332–1323 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings.