The quote

It was sometime before one could see, the

hot air escaping caused the candle to
flicker, but as soon as ones eyes became
accustomed to the glimmer of light the
interior of the chamber gradually loomed
before one, with its strange and wonderful
medley of extraordinary and beautiful
objects heaped upon one another.
 Howard Carter

Life without King Tut

 The end of his life
The clearance of the tomb with its thousands of objects continued
until 1932. Following his sensational discovery, Carter retired from
archaeology and became a part-time agent for collectors and
museums, including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit
Institute of Arts. He visited the United States in 1924 and gave a
series of illustrated lectures in New York City and other cities in the
US that were attended by very large and enthusiastic audiences,
sparking American Egyptomania.

Carter died of lymphoma in Kensington, London, on 2 March 1939,

aged 64. Carter is now buried in Putney Vale Cemetery in London.
His epitaph reads: "May your spirit live, may you spend millions of
years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind,
your eyes beholding happiness", a quotation taken from the Wishing
Cup of Tutankhamun, and "O night, spread thy wings over me as
the imperishable stars".
The man himself
Map
 Beginnings
Howard Carter, (born May 9, 1874,
Swaffham, Norfolk, Englanddied March
2, 1939, London), British archaeologist,
who made one of the richest and most-
celebrated contributions to Egyptology: the
discovery (1922) of the largely intact tomb
of King Tutankhamen.
 career
At age 17 Carter joined the British-sponsored
archaeological survey of Egypt. He made drawings
(189399) of the sculptures and inscriptions at the
terraced temple of Queen Hatshepsut in ancient Thebes.
He next served as inspector general of the Egyptian
antiquities department. While supervising excavations in
the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings in 1902, he
discovered the tombs of Hatshepsut and Thutmose IV.
 Carter spent much of his childhood with relatives in the Norfolk market
town of Swaffham, the birthplace of both his parents. Nearby was the
mansion of the Amherst family, Didlington Hall, containing a sizable
collection of Egyptian antiques, which sparked Carter's interest in that
subject. In 1891 the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF), on the prompting of
Mary Cecil, sent Carter to assist an Amherst family friend, Percy
Newberry, in the excavation and recording of Middle Kingdom tombs at
Beni Hasan.

Although only 17, Carter was innovative in improving the methods of

copying tomb decoration. In 1892, he worked under the tutelage of
Flinders Petrie for one season at Amarna, the capital founded by the
pharaoh Akhenaten. From 1894 to 1899, he worked with douard Naville
at Deir el-Bahari, where he recorded the wall reliefs in the temple of
Hatshepsut.
 Beni Hasan
Beni Hasan (also written as Bani Hasan, or also Beni-
Hassan) (Arabic: ) is an Ancient Egyptian cemetery
site. It is located approximately 20 kilometers to the south
of modern-day Minya in the region known as Middle Egypt,
the area between Asyut and Memphis.[1]

While there are some Old Kingdom burials at the site, it

was primarily used during the Middle Kingdom, spanning
the 21st to 17th centuries BCE (Middle Bronze Age).[2]

To the south of the cemetery is a temple constructed by

Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, dedicated to the local
goddess Pakhet.[3] It is known as the Cave of Artemis,
because the Greeks identified Pakhet with Artemis, and the
temple is subterranean.
 Beni Hasan
Exterior_view_of_tombs_of_Khety_and_Barquet_III
 In 1899, Carter was appointed to the position of Chief Inspector of
the Egyptian Antiquities Service (EAS). He supervised a number of
excavations at Thebes (now known as Luxor). In 1904, he was
transferred to the Inspectorate of Lower Egypt. Carter was praised
for his improvements in the protection of, and accessibility to,
existing excavation sites,[3] and his development of a grid-block
system for searching for tombs. The Antiquities Service also
provided funding for Carter to head his own excavation projects.

Carter resigned from the Antiquities Service in 1905 after a formal

inquiry into what became known as the Saqqara Affair, a noisy
confrontation between Egyptian site guards and a group of French
tourists. Carter sided with the Egyptian personnel.
 Hatchepsut
Hatshepsut (/htpst/; also Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies;[5]
15071458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the
second historically confirmed female pharaoh, the first being Sobekneferu.[6] (Various
other women may have also ruled as pharaohs regnant or at least regents before
Hatshepsut, as early as Neithhotep around 1600 years prior.) Hatshepsut came to the
throne of Egypt in 1478 BC. Officially, she ruled jointly with Thutmose III, who had
ascended to the throne the previous year as a child of about two years old. Hatshepsut
was the chief wife of Thutmose II, Thutmose IIIs father. She is generally regarded by
Egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other
woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty. According to Egyptologist James Henry
Breasted she is also known as "the first great woman in history of whom we are
informed."

Hatshepsut was the daughter and only child of Thutmose I and his primary wife
Ahmose. Her husband Thutmose II was the son of Thutmose I and a secondary wife
named Mutnofret, who carried the title King's daughter and was probably a child of
Ahmose I. Hatshepsut and Thutmose II had a daughter named Neferure. Thutmose II
fathered Thutmose III with Iset, a secondary wife.
Hatchepsut
 Hat
Deir el-Bahri.
 About 1907 he began his association with the 5th earl of
Carnarvon, a collector of antiquities who had sought out
Carter to supervise excavations in the valley. On
November 4, 1922, Carter found the first sign of what
proved to be Tutankhamens tomb, but it was not until
November 26 that a second sealed doorway was
reached, behind which were the treasures. Carters diary
captured the drama of the moment. After making a tiny
hole in the doorway, Carter, with candle in hand, peered
into the tomb.
 In 1907, after three hard years for Carter,
Lord Carnarvon employed him to
supervise Carnarvon's Egyptian
excavations in the Valley of the Kings.[5]
Gaston Maspero introduced the two to
ensure that Howard Carter imposed
modern archaeological methods and
systems of recording.
 Carnarvon financed Carter's work in the Valley of the
Kings to 1914, but excavations and study were
interrupted until 1917 by the First World War. Carter
enthusiastically resumed his work following the end of
the First World War.

After several years of finding little, Lord Carnarvon

became dissatisfied with the lack of results, and
informed Carter in 1922 that he had one more season of
funding to search the Valley of the Kings and find the
tomb.