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Howard Carter

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They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.


— Howard Carter


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Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway.


— Howard Carter


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We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.


— Howard Carter


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With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.


— Howard Carter


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When Carnarvon asked "can you see anything?" Carter replied with the famous words: "Yes wonderful things. Although only 17 years old he was innovative in improving the methods of copying tomb decoration. All of these discoveries were eagerly covered by the world's press but most of their representatives were kept in their hotels; only H.

Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist known for discovering the tomb of 14th-century BC pharaoh Tutankhamun.

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