The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Volume 3The 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