YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO TUTANKHAMUN TUTANKHAMUN'S DISCOVERY
At about 2pm on Sunday 26 November 1922, a moustachioed Englishman plunged a candle into a jet-black chamber and was greeted by the most extraordinary sight. Glinting in the glow of the flickering flame was gold – gold that had lain undisturbed for more than three millennia. “Can you see anything?” came a voice from behind him. Peering into the darkness, the Englishman – Howard Carter – replied: “Yes, it is wonderful.”
Carter was right. It was wonderful. For what the 48-year-old archaeologist and his companions had just unearthed was the most extraordinary discovery in the history of archaeology: the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Over the following months, what emerged from that darkened chamber and three rooms
