Tutankhamun's mummy in the Valley of the Kings in his KV62 chamber. Tutankhamun's mummy Tutankhamun's mummy was discovered by English Egyptologist Howard Carter and his team on October 28, 1925 in tomb KV62 of Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun was the 11th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, making his mummy over 3,300 years old. The burial chamber was found in 1922, but was not opened until a year later. Two years passed between the discovery of the tomb and that of the mummy and its famous death mask. The discovery of the tomb as a
Shaft and chamber tomb shafts, with a square chamber at the bottom of each shaft. Another shaft and chamber tomb is the Tomb of Osiris. Originally discovered in the 1880s, it was cursorily sketched by a Spanish-Italian unit the help of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, which excavated the tomb further. Some say that this tomb dates back to 760-525 BC. It is hard to quite put an exact date but researchers were able to narrow it down by similar tombs. The Tomb of Osiris has three major shafts and eight chambers. Western Mexico and Central American Tombs The Tombs of Western Mexico and