Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 after about five years of focused searching. Carnarvon died in 1923, while Carter and his team spent roughly another decade excavating and documenting it. The king reigned around 1332–1323 BC and died at about 19. His mummy lay in three nested coffins—two gilded wooden coffins and a solid-gold inner coffin—and wore a gold mask inlaid with colored glass and semiprecious stones. Harry Burton photographed the excavation in detail. Scans made in 2015 suggested possible hidden chambers behind the walls; the video argues that one could contain Queen Nefertiti’s burial 👑
Tutankhamun died at 19; scans suggest hidden chambers in his tomb
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Key facts
- After about five years of focused searching, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. Carnarvon died in 1923; Carter and his team continued excavating and documenting it for roughly another decade.
- Tutankhamun reigned around 1332–1323 BC and died at about 19.
- His mummy was enclosed in three nested coffins: two wooden coffins covered in gold and a solid-gold inner coffin. It wore an inlaid gold funerary mask.
- The mask was inlaid with colored glass and semiprecious stones.
- Harry Burton made a detailed photographic record of the excavation.
- Scans made in 2015 suggested possible hidden chambers behind the tomb walls; the video argues that one could contain Queen Nefertiti's burial.
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Discover the Life-Changing Discovery of Tutankhamun Tombegypttoursportal.com
In that year, Lord Carnarvon hired Carter to discover the tomb of an ancient young pharaoh of the glorious 18th dynasty named king Tutankhamen.
Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamunen.wikipedia.org
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 ...
The tomb that changed the worldexplorers.org
Early in the excavation, Lord Carnarvon died of an infected mosquito bite, and the “Curse of Tutankhamun” was born. Unlike many archaeologists of his day, ...
Howard Carter's Discovery Of Tutankhamun's Tombhistoryextra.com
He was to spend the next decade recording and preserving the tomb and its contents. ... Howard Carter died aged 64, some 16 years after Carnarvon, ...
The discovery of King Tut's tombkids.nationalgeographic.com
Pharaoh's curse? Carter spent nearly 10 years removing more than 5,000 objects from the tomb. The discovery and excavation delighted people around the world ...
The dazzling discovery of Tutankhamun's tombbbc.com
Waiting nervously nearby, his wealthy patron Lord Carnarvon asked if he could see anything. The legend goes that Carter replied, "Yes, wonderful ...
Finding Tutankhamun: Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and ...karwansaraypublishers.com
On the night of November 26, however, Carter, his assistant Arthur 'Pecky' Callender, Lord Carnarvon and his daughter, entered the tomb.
Howard Carteren.wikipedia.org
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, ...
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