Between Two Wars: Archaeological Discoveries in Egypt

Abstract

The document signed in Athens in 1931, which became known as the «Athens Charter», was of great importance for the protection of historical heritage all over the world, providing adequate legislation, careful restoration actions, and new conservation techniques, in a wide international collaboration, still ongoing today, now under the enlightened and dynamic protection from UNESCO. Egypt, one of the richest countries in monuments and other remnants of the past, followed the concerns of the meeting from the beginning and put into practice the essential recommendations contained in the «Athens Charter», with the episode of the discovery and study of the tomb of King Tutankhamon, in 1922, as an example of that.