![]() ![]() That time was running out when, on November 4, Carter's water boy stumbled across steps in the sand that led to an important burial site. In 1922, however, Lord Carnarvon informed Carter that he would fund that quest for only one more year unless they struck pay dirt. "King Tut" had taken the throne at the age of nine or ten and died at about age 18, making his story all the more intriguing. As one of the world's leading experts in the field, he often operated at the behest of the fabulously wealthy collector of antiquities, Lord Carnarvon, who had hired him to supervise his excavations in the Valley of the Kings along the Nile River.Ĭarter 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 the 18th dynasty, who had ruled between 13 B.C. ![]() In 1922, Howard Carter had spent the last thirty years digging around Egypt for ancient tombs. ![]()
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