Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor in Egypt in November 1922. Scanned from image material in the archive of Press Portrait Service (formerly Press Portrait Bureau)


One of the greatest Egyptian archeological finds was the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun by Howard Carter in 1922. The expedition was mainy funded by Lord Carnarvon. The photograph shows Howard Carter moving out of the tomb with the centre portion of one of the beds or couches


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Location: Egypt
Photo credit: © David Cole / Alamy / Afripics
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