Pierre Lacau the excavator all the rest. Lacau oversaw the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 by the English archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in the Valley of the Kings. Relations with Carter were rarely cordial and were exacerbated by both the monopoly of publication rights which Lord Carnarvon sold to "The Times", and pressure from the Egyptian government who resented the lack of Egyptian involvement in the Tutankhamen excavation. In 1924 Lacau, acting under the orders of the new Minister of Public Works, forbade the wives of Howard Carter's team to enter the tomb. Carter closed the tomb
Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun exhibition until May 2009. The tour continued to other U.S. cities. After Dallas the exhibition moved to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, to be followed by the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York City. This exhibition, featuring completely different artifacts to those in "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs", first ran at the Ethnological Museum in Vienna from March 9 to September 28, 2008 under the title "Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs". It featured a further 140 treasures from the Valley of the Kings including objects from the tomb of King Tut. The