Carter was investigating the tomb of King Tut in 1922. Amazingly, the tomb’s contents were in fact in spite of having been ransacked in antiquity. Carter found king Tut’s Mummy in three nested coffins, the most important find of all. To Carter’s dismay he found he could not study the mummy as it was stuck to the bottom of the coffin due the hardening of the funerary raisins Carter tried ‘legitimate force’ but could not dislodge the mummy from its these in the coffin. So he cut the mummy in several parts, removed its head and severed almost all the joints. Carter’s action was highly condemnable as he nearly destroyed the mummy. His defence was that if not be robbers and vandals would have done the same. Historians, however, have not forgiven Carter for this disfigurement.
