“With trembling hands I made a tiny breach in the upper left-hand corner... widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in.”

About Howard Carter

Archaeologist • British

Howard Carter was a renowned British archaeologist and Egyptologist. He is most famous for discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun, in November 1922. This monumental discovery in the Valley...