Howard Carter Quotes
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.
Carter, Howard. Howard Carter's Excavation Diaries. The Griffith Institute, 26 Nov. 1922.
At the time McCarthy made this statement he was suffering from an advanced state of alcoholism. He was censured. See {619921}.
In the French & Indian War, Braddock had organized a military expedition to destroy some of the forts that the French had constructed. (See {37008}.) Braddock and the other military officers thought that the force Braddock had organized would be overwhelming and easily accomplish the objective. Benjamin Franklin was one of the only Colonial leaders who expressed concern about the expedition–{583427}. This was one of the first battles for a promising young officer named George Washington who had two horses shot out from under him.
Howard Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.
