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The unbroken seal on King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1923. That piece of rope and clay remained entirely untouched for 3,245 years before this photo was taken.
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I dug a bit more to find the origin of the photo and found that it's from a collection taken by Harry Burton. The series about Tutankhamun's Tomb can be seen here. Some of them have been colourized.
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Two photos seem to show doors like this.
January 1924 | Howard Carter opening the door of the second burial shrine (Carter no. 237), in Tutankhamun's Burial chamber.
4th January 1923 | Howard Carter (kneeling), Arthur Callender and an Egyptian workman in the Burial Chamber, looking through the open doors of the four gilded shrines towards the quartzite sarcophagus.