Howard Carter

…The labels and the interpretive material speak of Howard Carter, who did the work, and of Lord Carnarvon, who provided the patronage.…

…On the fourth of november nineteen twenty two, Carter's team uncovered the top of a staircase cut into the rock of the valley floor, in an area that had been covered by debris from the excavation of a later tomb directly above it.…

…By the time Howard Carter was working in the valley in the early twentieth century, almost every tomb that had been discovered was empty of its portable treasures, stripped by thieves operating in antiquity with a thoroughness that several millennia had done nothing to mitigate.…