The moment Howard Carter was assured everlasting fame can be pinpointed to five syllables, uttered breathlessly in a hot, dusty tunnel outside Luxor at around 2 p.m. on November 26, 1922.

On Nov. 26, 1922, the world of archeology scored the motherlode with the finding of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt. Archaeologist Howard Carter beat the odds and discovered the mostly-untou… ...

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”.

After years of excavating without results, Carter's persistence paid off when he and his team discovered a step leading down into the entrance of Tutankhamun's tomb on November 4, 1922.

On November 4, 1922, in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, British Egyptologist Howard Carter stumbled across a crumbling step, half hidden beneath the debris from the tomb of Ramesses IV.

Carter lived there in a modest mud-brick house as he roamed the area in search of an elusive tomb which he believed might still hold the remains of Tutankhamun, a mysterious Egyptian pharaoh of ...

by Daniel Meyerson Ballantine, 230 pp., $26 At the moment in 1922 when Howard Carter uncovered the mummy of King Tut, he catapulted both parties from obscurity to fame.

Rumors of a curse have persisted since Howard Carter and others found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. The deaths of Lord Carnarvon and others associated with the excavation perpetuated the speculation.

King Tut, whose tomb was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter on Nov. 4, 1922 — a century ago Friday — was a sensation then. And he's a sensation now.

King Tut, called Tutankhaten at birth, was born in ancient Egypt around 1341 B.C. His father, Akhenaten, was a revolutionary pharaoh who tried to focus Egypt's polytheistic religion around the ...