When it was made: Circa 1330 B.C. When British archaeologist Howard Carter and local Egyptians excavated the tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922, they found thousands of artifacts buried with the young ...

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On February 16, 1923, English archaeologist Howard Carter opened the final chamber in an Egyptian tomb, which he would soon confirm as the lost burial place of Tutankhamun. Tutankhamun, also known as ...

King Tutankhamun's tomb yielded a fascinating pair of sandals, intricately designed with depictions of his vanquished enemies on the soles. These symbolic shoes, made of wood and bark, represented the ...

On a sunny morning, Egyptian workers were clearing the sands at the Valley of the Kings, when they uncovered the hint of stone steps about 13 feet (4 meters) below the tomb of Ramesses VI. This sunken ...

In a BBC archive clip from 1936, the archaeologist Howard Carter describes the moment on 12 February 1924 when he and his team became the first people in 3,300 years to meet the Egyptian boy king.