Howard Carter
King Tutankhamens tomb was not discovered until 1922 by Howard Carter.
Carter was born in 1874 in Swaffam Norfolk, England. His father tried to teach Carter the fundamentals of drawing and painting, but Carter had no ambition to do this. Instead he set his mind to go to Egypt for the Egyptian Exploration Fund as a tracer, which is a person who copies drawings and inscriptions on a paper to study. When Carter was working at this job his first task was to record and copy the scenes from the walls of the tomb. After this task was done, he was able to work for Flinders Petrie. Petrie was a strong field director and an archeologists. Petrie said that Carter could never be able to become an archeologist, but Carter proved Petrie wrong. Carter worked hard and became an archeologist. Carter drew sketches of artifacts inside the tombs he researched. Carter became principle Artist for the burial of Queen Hatshepsut. After he had done this, he was offered a job as Inspector General of Monuments for Upper Egypt. Carter's responsibility was reference to supervise and control archeology along Nile (Valley) River.
Carter's job came to an endbut, then he kept on going when, he told soldiers to fight with the drunken tourists. But Carter wasn't done. He had his eye on finding the artifacts and the tomb of King Tut. If Carter wanted to keep his job, he had to find the tomb in one season. So he started on November 1, 1922, and it took three days to find the top of the stair case. On November 26, 1922, at 4:00 pm., Carter found the entrance of King Tut's tomb. The artifacts that were in King Tut's tomb were sent to Cario Museum. Howard died at age 65 in the year of 1939.
