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Howard Carter wearing a suit, bow tie, and tall top hat, poses for a formal portrait. Gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun Howard Carter examines the golden sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in Egypt in 1922, with an assistant beside him and excavation tools nearby. Tutankhamun's tomb
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Howard Carter wearing a suit, bow tie, and tall top hat, poses for a formal portrait.
King Tut's discoverer Howard Carter (1873–1939), a British archaeologist who discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun. Photograph c. 1924.

Howard Carter

British archaeologist
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Howard Carter (born May 9, 1874, Kensington, London—died March 2, 1939, London) was a British archaeologist, who made one of the richest and most-celebrated contributions to Egyptology: the discovery (1922) of the largely intact tomb of King Tutankhamun. At age 17 Carter joined the British-sponsored archaeological survey of Egypt. He made drawings (1893–99) of the sculptures and inscriptions at the terraced temple of Queen Hatshepsut in ancient Thebes. He next served as inspector general of...

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