CARTER, HOWARD

(1872), British going archeologist. He became of note as an Egypt ologist by his excavations in the Lady Valley of the Kings, Egypt, in search of The royal tombs and other evidences of the vanished civilization of the Pharaohs. He was only eighteen when he began his first researches on the site of Thebes, the ancient capital of Egypt, and thenceforth devoted his career to arc he logical Pea Mitaie exploration. fiittcarice Some were of his madewnice. most noteer $ ciation with Theodore M. Davis of | qo Boston, who from 1907 to 1914 unearthed six royal tombs and a wealth of rare | and valuable z antiquities. 1 Later he he became a ociated with the Earl of| Maj. Carnarvon in painstaking and often fruitle digging 7 in - Luxor. His, famous 1898; liscovery in 1023 of the fh ota June L He ‘Pharaoh, King Tut-ankh-amen (q.2.), 19, who | reigned more Wares than 3,000 years ‘ ago, ice Was the culmination of thirty-three| War s of continuous research and excavathe