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 t
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 main path through the valley, at centre right.
Lord Carnarvon at Howard Carter's house in Egypt, c. 1922
The vicinity of the tomb in 1924. The entrance to KV9 is at centre, and the retaining wall around the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb is below and to the right of it.
Tutankhamun's mummy
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Tutankhamun's mummy was discovered by English Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team on 28 October 1925 in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty o
The unbroken seal securing the doors of the second or third shrine
Howard Carter and one of his foremen clean the innermost coffin
Closeup of Tutankhamun's mummy within the innermost coffin, as revealed in late October 1925
Tutankhamun's wrapped mummy in-situ