Howard Carter

Howard Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist best known for discovering and excavating Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in 1922.

Tomb of Tutankhamun: The royal burial chamber discovered by Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. The discovery for which Carter is best known.
Archaeological excavation: The systematic removal and recording of deposits to investigate past human activity. Carter’s work turned the tomb’s discovery into a documented archaeological record.
Flinders Petrie: A British archaeologist who pioneered systematic methods in Egyptian archaeology and trained a generation of excavators. Carter worked with Petrie at Amarna early in his archaeological career.
Tutmania: A wave of popular fascination with ancient Egypt sparked by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Carter’s discovery generated a mass cultural response beyond scholarly Egyptology.
Valley of the Kings: A burial ground near Thebes where many pharaohs of Egypt’s New Kingdom were entombed. Carter searched this necropolis for Tutankhamun’s tomb.
Theodore M. Davis: An American excavator whose concessions in the Valley of the Kings preceded Carter’s search there. Davis’s claim that the valley was exhausted helped define Carter’s contrary search strategy.
Arthur Weigall: A British Egyptologist, journalist, and former chief inspector of antiquities in Upper Egypt. Weigall publicly criticized the handling of access and publicity around Carter’s discovery.
Egyptomania: The recurring fascination with ancient Egyptian imagery and culture in modern societies. Tutmania became a particularly intense episode in this broader cultural phenomenon.
Tutankhamun: An Egyptian pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty whose largely intact tomb was found in 1922. Carter’s excavation brought this comparatively obscure pharaoh to worldwide fame.
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon: A British aristocrat and antiquities enthusiast who financed Carter’s excavations in Egypt. His funding enabled Carter to continue searching after earlier seasons found no tomb.

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