The Sacred Cow Taken from the Luxor Tomb. By far the most wonderful of ancient articles to be taken from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, are the three great...
Photo shows the arrival of Lord Carnarvon, noted British Egyptologist , with his daughter, , arriving at Luxor station. From here they proceeded to...
Egyptologist Howard Carter watches as porters carry a throne from King Tutankhamun's Tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. The throne is inlayed...
Conservationist Arthur Mace, engineer/supervisor Reginald Engelbach, Howard Carter, chemist Alfred Lucas, engineer Arthur Callender and photographer...
Local men carrying the great couch, packed in a case, from the tomb of King Tutankhamun at Luxor, while a party of Cook's tourists watch the...
Local men carrying fragments of plaster, on which are inscribed the seal of the Pharaohs, from the tomb of Tutankhamun at Luxor. These fragments were...
Likeness of Egyptian King Tutankhamun , a 28 inch wooden gilded figure wielding a spear, found in the antechamber of the Kings's tomb, excavated by...
Likeness of Egyptian King Tutankhamun , one of four miniature gold coffins found in an alabaster chest in the burial chamber, excavated by Howard...
English Egyptologist Howard Carter walks with the patron of his research, archaeologist and 5th Earl, Lord Carnarvon George Herbert , at the Valley...
Excavation work being carried at King Tutankhamun's tomb, in the valley of the Kings, Egypt, 11th December 1923. At centre-left is the tent...
Workmen removing a wooden shrine from the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, circa 1923.
Carved cedar wood chair is carried away from the Tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by Egyptian labourers, escorted by archaeologist...
Archaeologists Howard Carter and Arthur Mace standing in the doorway between the Antechamber and the Burial Chamber in Tutankhamun's tomb.
Distinguished visitors to the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1923. The Queen of the Belgians , Lord Allenby and Lady Allenby...
Closing the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, February 1923, The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist...
Visitors to the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1923. Stephen Vlasto and Lady Ribblesdale at the entrance to the tomb. The discovery...
Closing the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, February 1923, The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 by British archaeologist...
Outside the tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. Lord Carnarvon , his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert, and archaeologist Howard Carter...
Removal of the gilt shrine from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922-1923. Archaeologist Howard Carter walks alongside the...
Lord Carnarvon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1923. Lord Carnarvon and a party in a motor car. Carnarvon was archaeologist Howard...
Lord Carnarvon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. Lord Carnarvon , his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert, and archaeologist Howard...
Opening of the inner chamber of Tutankhamun's tomb, Egypt, 18th February 1923. Distinguished visitors taking refreshments near the tomb in the Valley...
Lord Carnarvon with Egyptian officials, Luxor, Egypt, 1922. Chatting on the terrace of the Winter Palace Hotel. Left to right: Abd El Aziz Yahieh...
The antechamber of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, November 1922. View of the antechamber looking west. The discovery of...
Crates are brought out of the newly-discovered tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, circa 1923.
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon looks over the partly removed sealed doorway between the antechamber and the burial chamber at the tomb of king...
Accompanied by archaeologist Howard Carter , the portrait bust of the wife of Pharaoh Tutankhamun is carried up the steps of the burial chamber,...
View of the antechamber of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. Carter, Howard 1873 - 1939 Archäologe, GBEntdeckung Grab Pharao...
French Egyptologist Pierre Montet walking down a step ladder into the newly discovered tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, circa 1923.
Tasmanian-born English archaeologist Arthur Mace of the Metropolitan Museum, and British chemist Alfred Lucas with the Egyptian government inspect a...
Members of the team that discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, pose before the entrance to a tomb, possibly that of of Ramses IV or Ramses...
British archaeologists Howard Carter and Arthur Callender carry out the systematic removal of objects from the antechamber of the tomb of Pharaoh...
British archaeologist Howard Carter with members of his team and Egyptian officials inspect the mummy of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun inside the royal...
British archaeologist Howard Carter opens the doors of the second of four gold shrines surrounding the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, Valley of...
Egyptologists on Howard Carter's team, American Arthur Mace of the Metropolitan Museum and British chemist Alfred Lucas of the Egyptian government,...
Queen Elisabeth of Belgium visits the recently opened tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun with her son the Duke of Brabant, later King Leopold III , Lord...
The first glimpse of Tutankhamun's tomb, Egypt, 1922. The sight that met the eyes of Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter when they broke down the sealed...
View of the antechamber of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. The tomb of the 18th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...
Three Shabtis or servant figures from the tomb of Tutankhamun, 14th century BC. These figures were buried in tombs in Ancient Egypt. It was believed...
Tomb of Tutankhamun, Karnak, Luxor, Egypt. The tomb of the 18th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, famously...
Pectoral jewel from the tomb of Tutankhamun, Ancient Egyptian, c1325 BC. Pectoral showing Ptah, creator of the universe and patron of craftsmen, and...
Pectoral jewel from the treasure of Tutankhamun, Ancient Egyptian, c1325 BC. A pectoral jewel showing Horus, the falcon-headed god, crowned with a...
Men build a single track railway through the Valley of Kings for transporting cases of relics from Tutankhamun's tomb in Luxor.
An artist retouches paint on a statue from the tomb of Tutankhamun for the Egyptian exhibit at Wembley, London, 1924.
British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter , an Egyptian team member and his Arthur Callender in the burial chamber, looking through the...
Henry Canova Vollam Morton FRSL , , circa 1925. Morton was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Lancashire, England. He was best known for...
George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, DL , circa 1895. Styled Lord Porchester until 1890, he was an English peer and...
Howard Carter the British archaeologist and Lord Carnarvon , his financial backer, after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh,...
Egyptian civilization, Old Kingdom, Dynasty XVIII. Golden funerary mask of Tutankhamun inlaid with lapis lazuli, obsidian and turquoise.
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon riding in a car with his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert in Luxor, Egypt, 1922. Carnarvon was the financial backer...
Sketch of English peer and aristocrat Lord Carnarvon, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, , circa 1905. He is best known as the financial backer of the search...