The birthday of Howard Carter is celebrated by Google today.
Carter was already a distinguished archaeologist and Egyptologist,
when he became famous for his discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the
most intact Pharaonic tomb ever found.
At age 17 he began recording tomb decorations of the Middle Kingdom
period, and then a year later, in 1892, he began work in Armana,
documenting what remained of the capital city of Akhenaten – the father
of Tutankhamun.
On...
