• Packing for Eternity

   

  Howard Carter reported seeing “wonderful things” on first shining his light into Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. Despite previous botched robbery attempts, the majority of the tomb’s contents still remained intact, complete with everything any self-respecting Pharaoh might need for a journey across the underworld to the afterlife.
  
  But packing back in 1323 BC must have been a nightmare. Just keeping Tutankhamun himself in fine fettle for the journey meant that, after embalming, his corpse was encased in a nest of three gilded coffins, one stone sarcophagus and five timber shrines. Meanwhile his vital organs were packed away in their own canoptic chest. The rest of King Tut’s travel trunks included caskets for utensils, chests for linens, jars of oils, ointments, scents, foods and wines, chariots for hunting, even a boat, with everything guarded by the dog god Anubis and a couple of sacred bulls for good measure. A case of travelling might not light. I (rgw)
  

  A gilded bust of the Celestial Cow Mehet-Weret and travel trunks as found in King Tut’s tomb, 1923. Photo: © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford. Colourised by Dynamichrome.

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  A Little Bit of Order

  Sophie Lovell talks to Eero Koivisto of Claesson Koivisto Rune

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Caging the Beast

  Keeping Chernobyl leakproof

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Frankfurt Kitchen

  Emancipation through rationalisation

  Text: Rob Wilson
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Memory Palaces

  Architecture for recollection in the age of forgetting by Fiona Shipwright

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Homes for Things

  Self-storage centres for stuff

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Packing for Eternity

  Tutankhamun’s 3,300 year-old trunks

  Text: Rob Wilson
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  The Invisible Museum

  Elvia Wilk talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about outing the archive

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Systematically Stashed

  The 606 Universal Shelving System

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Lives of Others

  Tearing up the Stasi archives

  Text: George Kafka
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Lest We Forget

  Sophie Lovell & Sebastian Schumacher on the rise of the data centre

  Text: Sophie Lovell, Sebastian Schumacher
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Tall Storeys

  The ups and downs of the multi-storey car park

  Text: George Kafka
• FOCUS

  FOCUS

  Ex Libris

  Focus on national libraries

  Text: George Kafka, Fiona Shipwright
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Our Friends Electric

  The Tesla Gigafactory

  Text: George Kafka
• BOOKMARKED

  BOOKMARKED

  Bookmarked

  uncube's favourite storage-related books

  Text: Fiona Shipwright, George Kafka, Rob Wilson, Florian Heilmeyer
• PHOTO BOOTH

  PHOTO BOOTH

  In the Photo Booth with...

  Shumi Bose, Jack Self and Finn Williams

  Text: Rob Wilson
• FURTHER READING

  FURTHER READING

  Further Reading
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  NEXT

  Next

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