Wonderful Things
When Howard Carter pressed his face to a small hole chiseled through ancient stone on November 26, 1922, his patron Lord Carnarvon called out impatiently...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19.
When Howard Carter pressed his face to a small hole chiseled through ancient stone on November 26, 1922, his patron Lord Carnarvon called out impatiently from behind him, "Can you see anything?" Carter, his hands trembling and his eyes adjusting to the candlelight, could barely whisper: "Yes, wonderful things." For over three thousand years, the treasures of Tutankhamun had waited in the darkness beneath Egypt's Valley of the Kings — gold shrines, jeweled thrones, alabaster vessels, room after room of riches beyond anything Carter had imagined in his twenty years of searching.…
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