# Carter’s team unwraps the mummy in the tomb, destroying wrappings for gold and anatomy

Date: 1925

## The fact

In November 1925 the team, as Carter’s fourth-season journal records, unwrapped the mummy to lift ornaments and inspect the body. It is a knowledge method and a destruction of a buried person. Later CT would have been less invasive.

## Context

1925 had no CT. That does not make the unwrap gentle. Human remains as a gold matrix is a [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) harm to the dead, with high confidence on the act.

[Tutankhamun](/people/tutankhamun) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official archive, museum, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Griffith Institute — Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/; Griffith Institute / University of Oxford).

## Significance

A 1925 unwrap is a dated disturbance of human remains, not a clinic and not a respectful reburial.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Tutankhamun: https://factrail.ai/people/tutankhamun

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tutankhamun
- https://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tut-1925-unwrapping