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Historical Figures

Archaeologist

Howard Carter

British archaeologist (1874–1939)

1874 – 1939

Biography

Later famous for finding the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Some two decades earlier, in 1900, he uncovered the Bab el-Hosan at Deir el-Bahari, where the statue of Mentuhotep II was found.

Howard Carter · KEMET