Entrance to King Tut’s tomb discovered British archaeologist
Howard Carter and his workmen discover a step leading to the
tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
When Carter first arrived in Egypt in 1891, most of the ancient
Egyptian tombs had been discovered, though the little-known King
Tutankhamen, who had died when he was 18, was still unaccounted
for. After World War I, Carter began an intensive search for
“King Tut’s Tomb,” finally finding steps to the burial room
hidden in the debris near the entrance of the nearby tomb of
King Ramses VI in the Valley of the Kings. On November 26, 1922,
Carter and fellow archaeologist Lord Carnarvon entered the
interior chambers of the tomb, finding them miraculously intact.
Thus began a monumental excavation process in which Carter
carefully explored the four-room tomb over several years,
uncovering an incredible collection of several thousand objects.
The most splendid architectural find was a stone sarcophagus
containing three coffins nested w