Farmer Tom Pearcy painstakingly cut over 5km of pathways into his 15-acre field containing over a million maize plants at York Maze to create the biggest ever image of Tutankhamun, marking the centenary of the opening of the burial chamber.
ONE hundred years after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb and over 3,000 years since his death, a farmer has carved a world record setting image of the boy King in his field of maize near York.
Farmer Tom Pearcy painstakingly cut over 5km of pathways into his 15-acre field containing over a million maize plants at York Maze to create the biggest ever image of Tutankhamun, marking the centenary of the opening of the burial chamber.
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