Tomb of Tutankhamun
Tumba de Tutankamón
- Date
- 4 de noviembre de 1922 · confidence high
- Place
- Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt
- Credited to
- Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon; foreman Ahmed Gerigar and water-carrier Hussein Abdel-Rassoul
- People
- 👤 Howard Carter1874–1939
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Carter found the only nearly intact royal Egyptian tomb, with more than 5000 objects and the boy pharaoh's gold mask. It took him ten years to catalogue and set standards for archaeological documentation.
Coordinates of tomb KV62. The Egyptian team, essential to the work, remained invisible in accounts of the time. The 'curse' myth is a journalistic invention.
What it led to
- Global Egyptomania and Art Deco
- Egyptian law retaining antiquities (1922-)
- DNA and CT studies of the royal mummies
- Grand Egyptian Museum (2025)
Built on
- Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of hieroglyphs1799 / 1822
- Decipherment of hieroglyphs
- Davis's excavations in the Valley of the Kings
Made possible
- Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger blade1925
- Systematic archaeological photography (Harry Burton)
- Preservation of organic artefacts