George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
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George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon,, styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
Lord Carnarvon, who was the chief financial backer on many of Howard Carter's Egyptian excavations.
Lady and Lord Carnarvon at the races in June 1921.
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.
Lord Carnarvon's tomb on Beacon Hill
Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun
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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. Whereas the tombs of most pharaohs were plundered by graverobbers in ancient times, Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden by debris for most of its existence and therefore not extensively robbed. It thus became the first known largely intact royal burial from ancient Egypt.
Howard Carter (squatting), Arthur Callender and an Egyptian workman, looking into the opened shrines enclosing Tutankhamun's sarcophagus in 1924
The Valley of the Kings in 1922. The tomb of Tutankhamun lies near the central path through the valley, at centre right.
Lord Carnarvon at Howard Carter's house in Egypt, c. 1922
View of the southwest corner of the antechamber, with disassembled chariots on the left and furniture on the right. The entrance to the annexe is beneath the funerary bed to the right of centre.