How did Howard Carter Locate Tutankhamun's Tomb?' On November 4th 1922 a breathless archaeologist, who had spent his life working in Egypt, wrote a hurried diary entry: “First steps of Tomb Found”.

A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s ...

The 1922 discovery became a global media sensation—and captured the imagination of millions. When British archaeologist Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun’s tomb on November 26, 1922, he ...

This undated file photo shows Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb, examining King Tut’s sarcophagus. AP ...

Just over a century ago, celebrated Egyptologist Howard Carter broke open the seal on a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, near modern-day Luxor, and discovered a uniquely near-intact royal burial ...

Carter’s team included Egyptian foremen Ahmed Gerigar, Gad Hassan, Hussein Abu Awad and Hussein Ahmed, who have typically been excluded from histories of the tomb’s discovery.

It was on 28 October 1925 – three years after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb – that Carter and his colleagues were finally ready to open the pharaoh’s solid-gold coffin.