Tutankhamun's mummy just Lord Carnarvon, Howard Carter and his team set out to Egypt in 1922 to discover the tomb of Tutankhamun, and because of other recent discoveries during that time in a particular area of the Valley of the Kings, Carter believed he had a good idea of where he would find it. Theodore M. Davis, an archeologist contemporary with Carter, discovered pottery with Tutankhamun's name a short distance from where Carter would on November 4, 1922 discover KV62. The location at the Valley of the Kings was significant to the New Kingdom because it is where the pharaohs of the
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