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In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
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Howard Carter
British archaeologist and Egyptologist (1874–1939)
Howard Carter 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.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tutankhamun
Pharaoh of ancient Egypt (18th Dynasty)
Tutankhamun or Tutankhamen, was an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Born Tutankhaten, he instituted the restoration of the traditional polytheistic form of ancient Egyptian religion, undoing a previous shift to the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Valley of the Kings
Necropolis in ancient Egypt
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 nobles under the New Kingdom of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)