Clearing of the Antechamber began on december 27, 1922, and was not completed until the middle of february, 1923 seven weeks of harassing, neave-racking work in a room measuring only 25 ft by 16 ft., containing over six hundred objects, many of them in a fragile condition. Some where so delicate that they had to be chemically treated on the spot, even before they were removed to the laboratory.
Firstly everythink needed to be photographed. Before anythink was done, or anythink moved. They must have a series of preliminary views, taken in panorama, to show the general appearance of the chamber.
The next step to be taken after the preliminary photographs were taken was to devise an efficient method to register the contents of the chamber. This would be essential so later on we would have had a readily available means of ascertaining the exact location from which object came from. This would have then made it possible for each object to be catalogued and then be given a serial number for when it was removed from the tomb, but in return this may not have been enough because the serial number may not give the exact location of where this artefact was actually kept in the chamber. So the numbers were to follow a certain order beginning at the entrance doorway and then working systematically round the chamber, but it was now certain that many objects now hidden would be found in the course of clearing and would have to be numbered out of turn. Every number was shown in more than one photo so that at least one photo would be left with all of the notes that they had of the artefact in the photo. These prints also showed the exact location of the artefact in the tomb.
All of the preparations were made. The first object to be removed from the tomb was the painted wooden casket. Then working from north to south, thus putting of the evil day when we should have to tackle the complicated tangle of chariots, they gradually disencumbered the great animal couches and the object that surrounded them.
