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Howard Carter
1874–1939
Best known for uncovering Tutankhamun’s tomb, this British archaeologist brought one of history’s most dramatic discoveries to light. His career joined careful excavation with an artist’s eye for recording the ancient world.
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Five Years' Explorations at Thebes A Record of Work Done 1907-1911 by The Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter
by Earl of George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert Carnarvon, Howard Carter
About the author
Born in London in 1874, Howard Carter began as an artist, learning to draw from his father before being sent to Egypt as a teenager to copy tomb decorations. That training shaped the rest of his career: he became known not just for excavation, but for close observation and meticulous recording.
Carter worked for the Egyptian Antiquities Service and later with Lord Carnarvon, whose funding supported the search that changed his life. In November 1922, after years of work in the Valley of the Kings, he discovered the largely intact tomb of Tutankhamun, a find that made him world-famous and transformed modern understanding of ancient Egypt.
He spent much of his later life supervising the excavation and cataloging of the tomb’s extraordinary contents. Carter died in 1939, but his name remains closely tied to one of archaeology’s most celebrated moments.