Astonishing story of how Tutankhamun’s golden treasure tomb was found under rubble

“Everyone thought that all the royal tombs that were going to be discovered had been discovered,” said Janina Ramirez during the BBC’s, ‘Raiders of the Lost Past‘.

It may have been true. Carter and his team found little in the valley, and what they did find in the following five years had little to do with the fabled Tutankhamun.

All of this led to a fateful meeting in June 1922, when Carter received a summons from Carnarvon.

High taxation to account for the losses in World War I had placed stately homes in an awkward position, and Carnarvon was feeling the squeeze.

George Reginald Oliver Molyneux Herbert, the 8th Earl of Carnarvon, Carnarvon’s great-grandson, said Carnarvon was worried, telling Ramirez: “I think great-grandfather was getting to the stage it was all becoming quite an expensive thing.

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Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1691206/tutankhamun-Howard-Carter-ancient-egypt-spt