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Mace had become an expert in the preservation of fragile materials, and his principal role, together with Alfred Lucas, was to treat each of the objects found, some of them quite fragile, including cleaning and preliminary repairs before shipment to the
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In 1907 Mace married Winifred Blyth, they had two daughters, Margaret and Anne. During the Tutankhamun excavation they lived with Mace near the site, Winifred arriving with her grand piano strapped on the back of a camel.
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In addition to his conservation work, Mace gave the excavation broader support. He was one of Carter's closer companions and confidants, co-writing with Carter the first volume of the popular account of the excavation,
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located close to Tutankhamen's tomb. Conditions in the tomb were cramped and extremely hot, with Mace and Lucas working long hours to keep pace with the items removed from Tutankhamun's tomb.
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Due to the heat, work was undertaken each winter. Mace worked on the clearance for two winter seasons, before leaving both Carter's team, and Egypt, for health reasons in the spring of 1924.
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After leaving the Army in 1919, Mace went to New York to work on the restoration of Ancient Egyptian artifacts for the Metropolitan Museum, before returning to lead the excavations at
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Arriving on 25 December 1922, Mace was a part of a small team of experienced archaeologists and experts, led by Carter and including
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in 1920. He was still working there when, in December 1922, the Metropolitan Museum agreed to loan him to the archaeologist
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in Germany in 1902–03 and then returning to Egypt. In 1906 Mace joined the
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After leaving Oxford, Mace joined Flinders Petrie in Egypt, beginning his
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The Grand Piano Came by Camel: Arthur C. Mace, the Neglected Egyptologist
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Arthur Cruttenden Mace – Taking His Rightful Place, Part 2
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Arthur Cruttenden Mace – Taking His Rightful Place, Part 1
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Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun
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conserve a chariot from Tutankhamun's tomb, December 1923
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During his final years in Egypt, Mace had suffered from
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Regiment. In February 1917 he was commissioned in the
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People associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Mace working on items from Tutankhamun's tomb, 1923
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Glenorchy
Tasmania
Haywards Heath
Keble College, Oxford
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tutankhamun's tomb
Flinders Petrie

Alfred Lucas
Tasmanian
archaeologist
Egyptologist
Metropolitan Museum
Howard Carter
excavation
Tutankhamun's tomb
Glenorchy
Hobart
Tasmania
née
St Edward's School, Oxford
Keble College, Oxford
high church
Oxford Movement
Flinders Petrie
archaeological
Egypt Exploration Fund
Dendera
Hiw

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