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Howard Carter (squatting), Arthur Callender and an Egyptian workman, looking into the opened shrines enclosing Tutankhamun's sarcophagus in 1924. The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by excavators led by the Egyptologist Howard Carter, more than 3,300 years after Tutankhamun's death and burial.
Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.
November 4 - Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamun. He opens it in the presence of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Carnarvon's daughter, Lady Evelyn Beauchamp, on November 26. [1] Many associated artifacts are found, including Tutankhamun's funerary mask and six chariots.
Originally discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter, the records of Carter’s discovery have been kept at the University of Oxford’s Griffith Institute. Fletcher said that not only is there ...
Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun, Second Edition. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-86064-615-7. Siliotti, Alberto (1996). Guide to the Valley of the Kings and to the Theban Necropolises and Temples. A. A. Gaddis. ISBN 978-977-424-718-7. Winstone, H. V. F. (2006). Howard Carter and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Revised Edition. Barzan ...
Lord Carnarvon, his daughter, Lady Evelyn Herbert, and Howard Carter at the top of the steps leading to the newly discovered tomb of Tutankhamun, November 1922. [17] In 1907 Lord Carnarvon undertook to sponsor the excavation of nobles' tombs in Deir el-Bahri, near Thebes.
The Anubis Shrine was part of the burial equipment of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, whose tomb in the Valley of the Kings was discovered almost intact in 1922 by Egyptologists led by Howard Carter. Today the object, with the find number 261, is on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, with the inventory number JE 61444. [2]
In November 1922 Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, its contents largely intact.Carter realised that "the first and pressing need was for photography, for nothing could be touched until a complete photographic record had been made, a task involving technical skill of the highest order."