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… ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Object Details author Hawass, Zahi A. Subject Tutankhamen King of Egypt Notes AFA copy 39088019605591 Gift from Janet Stanley. Contents The golden age of Egypt: Dynasty 18 -- Religion and life after ...