2007-11-22 07:26:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Howard Carter (May 9, 1874 – March 2, 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He is most famous as the discoverer of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt.
On 4 November 1922, after 15 years of searching and being funded, Carter found the steps leading to Tutankhamun's tomb (subsequently designated KV62), by far the best preserved and most intact pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings. Carter made the famous "tiny breach in the top left hand corner" of the doorway, and was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place. He did not yet know at that point whether it was "a tomb or merely a cache", but he did see a promising sealed doorway between two sentinel statues.
When in 1922 he discovered the tomb, it was said he found as well 150 gold amulets and even a death mask weighing 11 kilograms, with which the pharaoh was buried. Carter was thought to have used an axe to get the gold charms and the mummy was broken into 18 pieces. Due to the poor archaeological knowledge at the time, Carter left the mummy for hours without protection under the sun.
2007-11-22 08:58:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Howard Carter,after many years of searching in the Valley of the Kings,found the tomb of Tutankhamen.Carter, a self-trained archaeologist,had heard about this fabled tomb and spent many years searching for it;he even was prohibited in his search for awhile,because of sticky political workings. Lord Carnarvon was Carter's backer,morally as well as monetarily,sagely assisting and believing in Carter and the lost tomb,which was discovered in 1922 and took six years of excavation and work to complete the job.
2007-11-23 16:18:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
His tomb was discovered in the valley of the Kings in the 1920's by an English archaeologist named Carter.
2007-11-22 16:50:30 · answer #3 · answered by JT 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Howard Carter....
2007-11-23 00:58:36 · answer #4 · answered by Smiley Heart 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Howard Carter put up "Missing Person" signs all over Cairo.
2007-11-22 20:43:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Archaeologists.His tomb wasn't robbed...
2007-11-22 15:35:31 · answer #6 · answered by Your dad thinks I'm hot 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
By accident .
Lord Carnarvin in 1920 something.
2007-11-22 16:10:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
They looked in the usual place beside his Mummy, where babies are found after birth. That is in the nurses arms.
2007-11-22 17:36:02 · answer #8 · answered by The Questioner 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
In Egypt. Next time, write down his full name and learn to pronounce it. It is terrible to waste knowledge.
2007-11-22 16:09:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
inside the great pyramid by the archeologists.
2007-11-22 15:33:42 · answer #10 · answered by Michael M 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋