Howard Carter
British egyptologist (1874-1939) · United Kingdom · Academics · Died at 64
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Something wrong?The man who cracked open the most spectacular archaeological find of the twentieth century: a pharaoh's tomb that had lain untouched for over three thousand years, packed wall-to-wall with gold.
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Beauchamp family visting Tutankhamen's tomb, 1923
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Fouilles de Toutânkhamon - M. Howard Carter - btv1b9023109vIn their own words 3
, The news of the discovery spread fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with congratulations from this moment became the daily programme.
Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.
With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner... widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in...
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Father: Samuel John CarterAbout this person
Howard Carter was born on 9 May 1874 in Britain and trained as an Egyptologist at a time when the Valley of the Kings had been picked nearly clean by centuries of looters and diggers. In November 1922, after years of fruitless excavation, he discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun - the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley, a chamber still sealed since antiquity and crammed with treasures that rewrote what the world knew about ancient Egypt. The find made him famous overnight, though the painstaking work of cataloging and emptying the tomb would consume the next decade of his life. He died on 2 March 1939.
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