Howard Carter millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness"", a quotation taken from the Wishing Cup of Tutankhamun, and ""O night, spread thy wings over me as the imperishable stars"." Carter has been portrayed in many film and television productions: Howard Carter Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb (designated KV62) of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (colloquially known as "King Tut" and "the boy king"), in November 1922. Howard Carter was born in Kensington on
Tomb of King Muryeong list of World Heritage Sites. The tomb was accidentally discovered during water drainage work on the No.5 and 6 tombs in 1971. It had been untouched by grave robbers and thieves for over a millennium, and when it was excavated it was the first time the tomb had been opened since the bodies of the king and queen were interred there fifteen hundred years earlier. The exterior of the tomb looks like an earthen mound, 20 meters in diameter and 7.7 meters () in height. It is believed that the mound was originally larger. Notably, the tomb employed a drainage