![]() ![]() “Wonderful things!” They’d found the tomb of Tutankhamun, so perfectly preserved that even its funeral flowers lay desiccated where they had been strewn in about 1325 BC. “Yes,” he replied when Carnarvon asked if he could see anything. ![]() Then, having excavated a buried stairway leading to a passage, Carter made a hole in an ancient door. His Egyptian workforce soon found a step down into the earth. Fortunately, Carter had “a superstitious feeling” that there might be something hidden under some huts in a neglected part of the valley. By 1922, Carnarvon was getting frustrated by the lack of glittering discoveries. Carter had been a digger since 1907, funded by the Egyptomaniac Lord Carnarvon. Known to specialists as KV62, the tomb was in the Valley of the Kings, where many pharaohs were buried. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images ‘The gold has dazzled everyone’ … Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves in Horemheb tomb in the Valley of the Kings. ![]()
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