Biographies: May 9
King Tut's discoverer
Featured Biography Howard Carter

At last have made wonderful discovery in Valley; a magnificent tomb with seals intact; re-covered same for your arrival; congratulations.

Howard Carter, telegram to Lord Carnarvon following the discovery of the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb, November 5, 1922

British archaeologist Howard Carter, who made one of the richest and most celebrated contributions to Egyptology—the discovery (1922) of the largely intact tomb of King Tutankhamun—was born this day in 1873.