The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Volume 1The discovery of the resting place of the great Egyptian King 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. Published in 1923, this is