Howard Carter
May 9, 1874 –March 2, 1939
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Necropolis scholar, Painter
Lived 64 years
- Born in
- Brompton
- Passed away in
- London
Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became known for discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.
Awards: Order of the Nile, Order of Leopold II, honorary doctor of Yale University
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