[SOLO] Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of his Tomb...by Sir G. Elliot Smith - dlo

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Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (1871 - 1937).

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/tutankhamen-and-the-discovery-of-his-tomb-by-the-late-earl-of-carnarvon-and-mr-howard-carter-by-sir-grafton-elliot-smith/
(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as Mr. Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. It gives us a new revelation of the wealth and luxury of Egyptian civilization during its most magnificent period. In beauty and design and perfection of craftsmanship, Tutankhamen's funerary equipment is indeed a new revelation of the ancient Egyptians' artistic feeling and technical skill.”

“At the time of Tutankhamen the great peoples that had built up civilization were losing their dominant position. If Egyptian rule had not been weakened at this particular time...the Old Testament would not have been composed in the atmosphere of strife that gives it its distinctive tone and seems to us today to exalt the importance of warfare and the value of military courage.”

“The period which is so brilliantly illuminated by the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb is thus perhaps the most critical period in the whole history of civilization. A new era was dawning and every scrap of information that sheds any light upon the circumstances of this fateful time is of tremendous interest to us in understanding the civilization under which we ourselves are living.” (Steven Seitel)
  • Text source (only read from this text!): https://archive.org/details/tutankhamendisco00smituoft/page/n5
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    Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/History /Modern (19th C); *Non-fiction/Religion/Other religions

    Keywords that describe the book: Egyptology, excavation, Tutankhamen

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  • The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
    No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
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    • "Chapter [number] of Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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Last edited by Steven Seitel on January 25th, 2019, 2:10 pm, edited 7 times in total.
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[Second post deleted.]
Last edited by Steven Seitel on January 23rd, 2019, 7:35 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Post by TriciaG »

You're missing the bottom portion of the coding. :)

You need to copy it all the way to the bottom. The window scrolls.
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Oops! My error, sorry. Okay, I hope it's right now.

Steven Seitel

PS It's only my second go at this and I'm still feeling my way...
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No worries. When you get the code, go ahead and edit your very first post in this thread (not even the 2nd one), and replace all the info in there. :)
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Post by Steven Seitel »

One last check...have I got it right now?

Thanks,

Steve
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Post by TriciaG »

Looks good!

I won't be MC'ing this, since I'm overfull on MC projects right now as it is. But whoever does pick it up will probably shorten the file name. :) (I'd probably make it tutankhamen_01_smith_128kb).

Have fun with this! 8-)
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Post by Kikisaulite »

Great choice of a book, Steven! I would like to DPL this one too!

Kristine :)
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Wonderful, Kristine! Thank you.

Steve
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Post by Steven Seitel »

TriciaG wrote: January 24th, 2019, 6:30 am Looks good!

I won't be MC'ing this, since I'm overfull on MC projects right now as it is. But whoever does pick it up will probably shorten the file name. :) (I'd probably make it tutankhamen_01_smith_128kb).

Have fun with this! 8-)
Thanks, Tricia. I will have fun. And I did shorten the file name as suggested.

Steve
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Post by dlolso21 »

Steven,

I can MC this for you.

The MW is up.

I made a few minor edits to the first post.

I am moving this to "Going Solo."

David O
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Post by Steven Seitel »

Great! Thank you, David.

Steve
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Chapter 00 Preface uploaded. Duration 2:51. Volume 89.38

https://librivox.org/uploads/dlolso21/tutankhamen_00_smith_128kb.mp3

Per discussion with David, I've omitted the Bibliographical Note.

Steve
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Post by Kikisaulite »

The Preface is PL OK! :clap:
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Post by Steven Seitel »

Thank you. Chapter 02 Exploration of the Theban Tombs... uploaded. Duration 11:01. Volume 89.39 dB

https://librivox.org/uploads/dlolso21/tutankhamen_02_smith_128kb.mp3

Steve
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