Howard Carter
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Howard Carter was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became known for discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb
Carter in 1924
Tomb of Tutankhamun
KV62 in the Valley of the Kings
A painted, wooden figure of Tutankhamun found in his royal tomb
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 excavatio
Howard Carter
…by painting and selling watercolours to tourists and, in 1906, acting as a freelance draughtsman for Theodore Davis. In 1907, Carter began work for Lord Carnarvon, who employed him to supervise the excavation of nobles' tombs in Deir el-Bahari, near Thebes. Gaston Maspero, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Service…
Lord Carnarvon, who was the chief financial backer on many of Howard Carter's Egyptian excavations.
Highclere Castle, Hampshire, seat of Lord Carnarvon.
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.