Howard Carter and a colleague excavating a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. Artist: Harry Burton

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Howard Carter and a colleague excavating a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. Carter and another archaeologist standing beside a partially demolished wall to one of the tombs. He famously discovered the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1922.

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