Mud Hut of Tutankhamun Discoverer Opens as Museum
The Egyptian mud-brick house of British archaeologist Howard Carter has been reopened as a museum.
Carter was living in the house 87 years ago when he made his most famous discovery, the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun.
He had been employed by collector Lord Carnarvon to search for the tomb of the then relatively unknown pharaoh.
The museum displays tools he used in excavations and a collection of photographs of him at work.
It was in November 1922 that the archaeologist made his extraordinary find.
It proved to be the most intact and best preserved tomb ever discovered in the Valley of the Kings.
It was packed with thousands of treasures – including the boy king’s golden burial mask.
Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said it had decided to renovate the house and turn it into a museum to satisfy visitors’ continuing fascination with Carter and to celebrate his contribution to Egyptology.
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