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 ...

Evelyn Herbert (far left), Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter and Arthur Callander stand at the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb, November 1922. Lady Evelyn was often in the company of her father in his ...

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.

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

When Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s burial chamber in 1922 and catalogued it, the set of clay troughs were given minimal thought, dashed off as stands for the nearly four-foot high ...

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 ...

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.