# Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922

> Follow the discovery of KV62 in November 1922, the Egyptian excavation team, and the painstaking recording of the burial. Separate the archaeological evidence from stories about curses and consider who controlled Egypt’s antiquities.

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## Concepts

### Percy Newberry

**Percy** Edward **Newberry** OBE was a British Egyptologist.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Newberry
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Newberry?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter

### Tutankhamun's mummy

**Tutankhamun's mummy** was discovered by English Egyptologist **Howard Carter** and his team on 28 October 1925 in tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun's_mummy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun's_mummy?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Tutankhamun

### Saad Zaghloul

**Saad Zaghloul** Pasha was an **Egyptian** revolutionary and statesman.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saad_Zaghloul
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saad_Zaghloul?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun

### Ay (pharaoh)

Ay was the penultimate **pharaoh** of **ancient Egypt**'s 18th Dynasty.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay_(pharaoh)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ay_(pharaoh)?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert%2C_5th_Earl_of_Carnarvon

### KV9

**Tomb** KV9 in Egypt's **Valley of the Kings** was originally constructed by Pharaoh Ramesses V. He was interred here, but his uncle, Ramesses VI, later reused the tomb as his own.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV9
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV9?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun

### KV54

Tomb **KV54** is located in the **Valley of the Kings**, in Egypt.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV54
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV54?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_M._Davis

### Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist)

**Ahmed** Kamāl was a prominent **Egyptian** Egyptologist and historian, widely regarded as the first native Egyptian Egyptologist.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Kamal_(Egyptologist)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Kamal_(Egyptologist)?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun

### Alan Gardiner

Sir **Alan** Henderson **Gardiner**, FBA was an English Egyptologist, linguist, philologist, and independent scholar.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gardiner
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gardiner?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Institute
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun

### James Henry Breasted

**James Henry Breasted** was an American **archaeologist**, Egyptologist, and historian.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_pharaohs

### Alfred Lucas (chemist)

**Alfred Lucas** OBE was an **Egyptian**-based English analytical chemist and archaeologist.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Lucas_(chemist)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Lucas_(chemist)?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cruttenden_Mace
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun

### Lady Evelyn Beauchamp

**Lady** Evelyn Leonora Almina Beauchamp, always known to her family as Eve, was the daughter of **George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon**.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Evelyn_Beauchamp
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Evelyn_Beauchamp?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun

### Arthur Callender

Arthur Robert Callender, nicknamed Pecky, was an English engineer and archaeologist, best known for his role as assistant to **Howard Carter** during the excavation of **Tutankhamun**'s tomb in the 1920s.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Callender
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Callender?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cruttenden_Mace
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert%2C_5th_Earl_of_Carnarvon

### Tutankhamun

**Tutankhamun** or Tutankhamen, was the third to last **pharaoh** of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, who ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC, dying at about the age of 19.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922

Follow the discovery of KV62 in November **1922**, the **Egyptian** excavation team, and the painstaking recording of the burial. Separate the archaeological evidence from stories about curses and consider who controlled Egypt’s antiquities.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/visit/object-trails/tutankhamun-ancient-and-modern-perspectives
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter

### Curse of the pharaohs

The curse of the **pharaohs** or the mummy's curse or the **Curse** of King Tut is a curse alleged to be cast upon anyone who disturbs the mummy of an ancient Egyptian, especially a pharaoh.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_pharaohs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_pharaohs?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Egyptian Museum

The Museum of **Egyptian** Antiquities, commonly known as the **Egyptian Museum** and also called the Cairo Museum or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC), is a national history museum in Cairo, Egypt.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Museum
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Museum?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun

### Pierre Lacau

**Pierre Lacau** was a French Egyptologist and philologist. He served as Egypt's director of antiquities from 1914 until 1936, and oversaw the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by **Howard Carter**.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lacau
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lacau?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Tomb of Tutankhamun

The tomb of **Tutankhamun**, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, is located in the **Valley of the Kings**. The tomb, also known by its tomb number KV62, consists of four chambers and an entrance staircase and corridor.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Tutankhamun?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of **Tutankhamun**'s tomb in the **Valley of the Kings**.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert%2C_5th_Earl_of_Carnarvon
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert%2C_5th_Earl_of_Carnarvon?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun

### Valley of the Kings

The **Valley of the Kings**, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for **pharaohs** and powerful

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Kings
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Kings?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cruttenden_Mace
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun

### Harry Burton (Egyptologist)

**Harry Burton** was an English archaeological photographer, best known for his photographs of excavations in Egypt's **Valley of the Kings**.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Burton_(Egyptologist)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Burton_(Egyptologist)?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Howard Carter

**Howard Carter** 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**.

Topics: history, historical episode

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Institute

### Griffith Institute

The **Griffith Institute** preserves **Carter**’s excavation archive, including Burton’s photographs.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Institute
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_Institute?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Metropolitan Museum of Art

Burton worked for the **Metropolitan** **Museum**’s Egyptian expedition, which lent his photographic expertise to Carter.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Burton_(Egyptologist)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutankhamun

### Arthur Cruttenden Mace

**Mace** worked with Carter on the excavation and conservation of objects from **Tutankhamun**’s tomb.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cruttenden_Mace
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cruttenden_Mace?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

### Theodore M. Davis

Davis’s earlier excavations in the **Valley of the Kings** preceded Carter’s discovery of **Tutankhamun**’s tomb.

Topics: history

Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_M._Davis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_M._Davis?action=history
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

## Relationships

- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Saad Zaghloul: Saad Zaghloul: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- Ay (pharaoh) — related_to → Tutankhamun: Ay (pharaoh): Tutankhamun
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Ay (pharaoh): Ay (pharaoh): Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- KV9 — related_to → Valley of the Kings: KV9: Valley of the Kings
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → KV9: KV9: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- KV54 — related_to → Valley of the Kings: KV54: Valley of the Kings
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → KV54: KV54: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- Tutankhamun's mummy — related_to → Howard Carter: Tutankhamun's mummy: Howard Carter
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Tutankhamun's mummy: Tutankhamun's mummy: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist) — related_to → Egyptian Museum: Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist): Egyptian Museum
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist): Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist): Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- Percy Newberry — related_to → Howard Carter: Percy Newberry: Howard Carter
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Percy Newberry: Percy Newberry: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- Alan Gardiner — related_to → Howard Carter: Alan Gardiner: Howard Carter
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Alan Gardiner: Alan Gardiner: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- James Henry Breasted — related_to → Howard Carter: James Henry Breasted: Howard Carter
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → James Henry Breasted: James Henry Breasted: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- Alfred Lucas (chemist) — related_to → Howard Carter: Alfred Lucas (chemist): Howard Carter
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Alfred Lucas (chemist): Alfred Lucas (chemist): Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- Lady Evelyn Beauchamp — related_to → George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon: Lady Evelyn Beauchamp: George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Lady Evelyn Beauchamp: Lady Evelyn Beauchamp: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- Arthur Callender — related_to → Howard Carter: Arthur Callender: Howard Carter
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Arthur Callender: Arthur Callender: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Curse of the pharaohs: Curse of the pharaohs: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Egyptian Museum: Egyptian Museum: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Pierre Lacau: Pierre Lacau: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Harry Burton (Egyptologist): Harry Burton (Egyptologist): people, places, and context for the episode.
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Valley of the Kings: Valley of the Kings: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon: George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Tomb of Tutankhamun: Tomb of Tutankhamun: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Tutankhamun: Tutankhamun: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922 — related_to → Howard Carter: Howard Carter: people, places, and context for the episode.
- Harry Burton (Egyptologist) — related_to → Tomb of Tutankhamun: Burton photographed the excavation and contents of tomb KV62, documenting the…
- Harry Burton (Egyptologist) — related_to → Griffith Institute: The Griffith Institute preserves Carter’s excavation archive,…
- Harry Burton (Egyptologist) — related_to → Metropolitan Museum of Art: Burton worked for the Metropolitan Museum’s Egyptian expedition, which lent his photographic…
- Howard Carter — related_to → George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon: Carnarvon financed Carter’s search and excavation…
- Howard Carter — related_to → Arthur Cruttenden Mace: Mace worked with Carter on the excavation and conservation of objects…
- Howard Carter — related_to → Theodore M. Davis: Davis’s earlier excavations in the Valley of the Kings preceded Carter’s discovery…