Tut's Tomb Opened: Howard Carter Finds the Boy King After 20 Years
Carter had been digging for three years. His wealthy patron, Lord Carnarvon, was losing patience. One more season, then quit. Carter found a step. Then another. Sixteen steps down to a sealed doorway. Behind it: four rooms crammed with 3,500 artifacts. Golden chariots, jewelry, weapons, furniture. Even underwear. But the real treasure was in the stone sarcophagus. Not gold. The mummy itself. Tutankhamun died at 19, probably from malaria. His tomb was the only pharaoh's burial found intact. It proved Egyptian wealth was beyond anything historians had imagined. Carter spent the next ten years cataloging everything. The discovery made him famous worldwide.
January 3, 1924
102 years ago
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