What is Howard Carter?
[[Image:Howard carter.jpg|thumb|right|Howard Carter]] [[File:Tuts Tomb Opened.JPG|thumb|Howard Carter opens the innermost shrine of King Tutankhamun's tomb near [[Luxor]], in 1922.]] '''Howard Carter''' (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an [[English people|English]] [[archaeologist]]. His mother was Martha Carter and his father was Samuel Carter. As a young man he worked for the Egyptian Antiquities Service. Later, he was the man who found King [[Tutankhamun]]'s tomb in 1922. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb was an accident. Howard Carter's waterboy stumbled across some steps leading under the desert surface. Lord Carnarvon, a sponsor of Carter's work, was impatient of the slow progress at this point.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2018/03-04/findingkingtutstomb/|title=How Howard Carter Almost Missed Finding King Tut's Tomb|date=2018-04-12|website=History Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-03-14}}</ref> If the discovery had not been made then, it likely would not have happened at all. ==References== <references/> {{commons}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Howard}} [[Category:1874 births]] [[Category:1939 deaths]] [[Category:English archaeologists]]