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Howard Carter

Howard Carter (May 9, 1874-1939) was an archaeologist most famous as the discover of King Tutankhamun's tomb.

Carter did much work in Egypt, starting in 1891 at the age of 17. There he worked on the excavation of Basi Hassan, the gravesite of the princes of Middle Egypt[?], c. 2000 BC. Later he was to come under the tutelage of Flinders Petrie[?].

In 1899 he was offered a position working for the Egyptian Antiquities service[?] from which he resigned as a result of a dispute in 1905.

After several hard years, Carter was introduced, in 1907, to Lord Carnarvon (George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of the Town and County of Carnarvon), an eager amateur who was prepared to supply the funds necessary for Carter's work to continue. Soon, Carter was supervising all Lord Carnarvon's excavations.

Lord Carnarvon financed Carter's search for the tomb of a previously unknown Pharaoh, Tutankhamun, whose existence Carter had discovered. On November 4, 1922 Carter found Tutankhamun's tomb, the only unplundered tomb of a Pharaoh yet found in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. On February 16, 1923 Carter opened the burial chamber and first saw the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.

After cataloguing the extensive finds, Carter retired from archaeology and became a collector. Carter died in England in 1939 at the age of 65.



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