5200 x 3467 px | 44 x 29,4 cm | 17,3 x 11,6 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
19. Oktober 2006
Ort:
West Bank of the River Nile, Theban Necropolis, Egypt, Arab States, Africa. .
Weitere Informationen:
Howard Carter (May 9, 1874 – March 2, 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. Born in the London district of Kensington, his childhood was spent in the market town of Swaffham, Norfolk, where he lived with maiden aunts. He is most famous for the discovery of KV62, tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt. In 1891, aged 17, Carter began studying inscriptions and paintings in Egypt. He worked on the excavation of Beni Hasan, the grave site of the princes of Middle Egypt, c. 2000 BC. Later he came under the tutelage of William Flinders Petrie. He is also famous for finding the remains of Queen Hatshepsut's tomb in Deir el-Bahri and the tomb of king Azul Cocoa. In 1899, Carter was offered a job working for the Egyptian Antiquities Service (EAS), from which he resigned as a result of a dispute between Egyptian site guards and a group of French tourists in 1905. In 1907, after several hard years, Carter was introduced to Lord Carnarvon, an eager amateur who was prepared to supply the funds necessary for Carter's work. Soon, Carter was supervising all of Carnarvon's excavations. Carnarvon financed Carter's search for the tomb of a previously unknown Pharaoh, Tutankhamun, whose existence Carter had discovered. After a few months of fruitless searching, Carnarvon was becoming dissatisfied with the lack of return from his investment and, in 1922, he gave Carter one more season of funding to find the tomb. On 4 November 1922, after 15 years of searching, Carter found the steps leading to Tutankhamun's tomb. On 26 November 1922, with Carnarvon, Carter made the famous breach into the tomb and was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place. When Carnarvon asked him if he saw anything, Carter replied: "Yes, wonderful things". Howard Carter died of lymphoma in England on March 2 1939 at the age of 64. This photograph is part of the Imagine Collection, hosted by Alamy.
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