The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 began at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, the home of Lord Carnarvon, who paid for Howard Carter's search in the Valley of the Kings. This route follows the money and the dig, from Hampshire to Luxor and Cairo.
It runs from the 1907 digs at Deir el-Bahari to the first step of KV62, Carnarvon's death in Cairo, his burial on Beacon Hill and the museum where the treasures ended up. One caveat: the exact site of the Cairo hotel is not pinned.
Jane Austen's life ran through four places in southern England: the Hampshire village of Steventon, the spa city of Bath, the cottage at Chawton and, at the end, Winchester Cathedral. Bath's Pump Room and Assembly Rooms also appear in her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
The route follows her from the rectory where she grew up in 1775 to her grave in 1817. The Steventon rectory is gone, so that pin is approximate; the other four places can all be visited today.
Downton Abbey está ambientada en una finca ficticia de Yorkshire entre 1912 y 1925, pero su gran casa se alza en Hampshire y su pueblo está en Oxfordshire. Esta ruta sigue la historia, desde la noticia del Titanic de la temporada 1 hasta la visita real de la película de 2019, por los lugares reales que hay detrás.
Incluye el castillo de Highclere, la iglesia y la biblioteca de Bampton, una prisión en Lincoln, castillos de Escocia y Northumberland, el plató de Ealing donde se construyó la cocina, y el pueblo del desfile de la película y las calles de York. El punto de Lacock marca el pueblo, porque las fuentes no nombran ningún lugar exacto.
