#Discovery of Tutankhamun&039;s Tomb

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The Tomb of Tutankhamun

In honour of the 100th anniversary of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun on 26 November 1922

On 26 November 1922 the archaeologist Howard Carter and his patron George Herbert, the Earl of Carnarvon were among the first people to walk into the antechamber of the tomb of Tutankhamun for the first time in 3,000 years. Tutankhamun was a pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. He was the son of Akhenaten, one of the most famous figures of Ancient Egypt for the way he abolished the traditional…