Howard Carter Quotes


Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.


Citations

Carter, Howard. Howard Carter's Excavation Diaries. The Griffith Institute, 5 Nov. 1922.

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Howard Carter
Howard Carter
  • Born: May 9, 1874
  • Died: March 2, 1939
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Scientist

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.