The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun
[Tut.ankh.Amen] in November 1922 by Howard Carter and the fifth Earl of
Carnarvon was the greatest archaeological find the world had ever seen. Despite
its plundering by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact with
its nest of coffins and funerary shrines, surrounded by a mass of burial
equipment arranged in three peripheral chambers.
After the long search for the tomb and its initial discovery and excavation
(volume 1), after the discovery of the king's resting place and body (volume 2),
the third and final volume of Howard Carter's account sees him