Shortly after the amazing discovery, tragedy struck. Inside the final one was the mummy of boy king, Tutankhamun. They were astonished by what they found - 3 solid gold coffins, nested inside of each other. Carter and Carnarvon at the entrance to the burial chamber But by February the next year, Carter and Carnarvon were ready to open the inner burial chamber that they hoped would contain the pharaoh himself. The tomb was so stuffed with treasures it took the team nearly 3 months to sort and catalog them all. Henry Morton, the only journalist allowed on the excavation, filed a series of reports of Carter’s discoveries to the London Times. Piled high with a dazzling array of treasures, the contents would stun the world.Ĭarter and his sponsor, Lord Carnarvon, had made the greatest discovery in the history of Egyptology - a fully intact 3000-year-old pharaoh’s tomb untouched by grave robbers.
“Yes, wonderful things”.Ĭarter had just discovered the tomb of an obscure 18th dynasty pharaoh, Tutankhamun. In November 1922, archeologist Howard Carter pushed a candle through a hole he had made in a sealed tomb door and peeked inside.
