Howard Carter Biography
- Born: 09-05-1874
- Died: 02-03-1939
- Birth Place: England
Howard Carter Biography
Carter began his archaeological work in Egypt in 1891, at the age of seventeen. There he worked on the excavation of Basi Hassan, the gravesite of the princes of Middle Egypt, circa 2000 BC. Later he was to come under the tutelage of Flinders Petrie.
In 1899, he was offered a position working for the Egyptian Antiquities service, from which he resigned as a result of a dispute, in 1905.
After several hard years, Carter was introduced, in 1907, to Lord Carnarvon, an eager amateur who was prepared to supply the funds necessary for Carter's work to continue. Soon, Carter was supervising all of Lord Carnarvon's excavations.
Lord Carnarvon financed Carter's search for the tomb of a previously unknown Pharaoh, Tutankhamun, whose existence Carter had discovered.
On November 1922, Carter found Tutankhamun's tomb, the only unplundered tomb of a Pharaoh yet found in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. On 16 February 1923, Carter opened the burial chamber and first saw the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.
After cataloguing the extensive finds, Carter retired from archaeology and became a collector. Carter died in England in 1939 at the age of 65.
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