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In the 1910-11 season, he returned to Luxor to work with Davis and Andrews again. He had planned on writing a book about his experience and publishing more of his paintings. But his tuberculosis had become so bad he could hardly leave his bed. He died in Luxor on 10 March 1911. Lord Carnarvon and
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in London. By 1904, his health had deteriorated so much from tuberculosis that he had to leave London. He was a good enough artist that he was able to join John Garstang's excavations in Egypt that same year.
333:, South Yorkshire on 7 March 1877 to William Jones and Mary Anne Sprake, both of Welsh heritage. His father was the first Headmaster of the Barnsley School of Art and then returned to Wales as Head of the 334: 762: 637: 305:(7 March 1877 – 10 March 1911) was a British artist and excavator, who identified early clues to the location of Tutankhamun's tomb. He contracted 612: 98:
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414:, painting larger objects coming out of tombs they cleared in the Valley. He worked with Davis and Andrews on notable excavations of 500:"A Son to Luxor's Sand": A Commemorative Exhibition of Egyptian Art from the collections of The British Museum and Carmarthen Museum 252: 150: 817: 224: 122: 455: 231: 129: 525: 289: 271: 169: 60: 466:. The paintings were donated by his sister Annie, more formally known as Miss M. A. Sprake Jones, of Bryn Myrddin, 374: 205: 46: 812: 238: 136: 807: 209: 802: 463: 95: 84: 220: 118: 661: 369:
in the 1903-04 season, but in the 1904-05 season became an excavator and an illustrator of the project at
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Jones continued working for Garstang until 1907, but quickly grew tired of the isolation of the sites of
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and in 1904 he decided to go to Egypt to relieve his symptoms. He worked with archaeologist
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Howard Carter organised his funeral and he is buried in the Christian Cemetery in Luxor.
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Wonderful Things, A History of Egyptology: Vol. 2, The Golden Age: 1881-1914
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was unveiled in Sackville Street, Barnsley, the home where he was born.
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from 1907-11. He died of tuberculosis in Luxor, Egypt, in March 1911.
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His portrait by Ernest H. D. Lloyd is held in the collection of the
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offered him more money for less work in the bustling town of
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