Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered 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. In 1914, Lord Carnarvon received the concession to dig in the Valley of the Kings. On 24 November 1922, the full extent of the stairway was cleared and a seal containing Tutankhamun’s cartouche found on the outer doorway. This door was removed and the rubble-filled corridor behind cleared, revealing the door of the tomb itself. On 26 November, Carter, with Carnarvon, Lady Evelyn and assistant Arthur Callender in attendance, made a „tiny breach in the top left-hand corner“ of the doorway, using a chisel that his grandmother had given him for his 17th birthday. He was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place. He did not yet know whether it was „a tomb or merely an old cache“, but he did see a promising sealed doorway between two sentinel statues. Carnarvon asked, „Can you see anything?“ Carter replied: „Yes, wonderful things!“ Carter had, in fact, discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb. We celebrate this great archaeologist with an image of Tutankhamun …