J.O. Kinnaman J.O. Kinnaman John Ora "J.O." Kinnaman (February 23, 1877 – September 7, 1961) was an American biblical scholar and biblical archaeologist. Born in Bryan, Ohio, Kinnaman graduated from Tri-State College, Indiana in 1894, and received his Ph.D. in Archeology from the University of Rome in 1907. He then accepted a teaching position at Benton Harbor College, where he would be later be made Dean. Kinnaman was one of the 20 people to be on the expedition led by Howard Carter that discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, and the last remaining survivor of the expedition. He would later pursue
Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun permanently remain in Egypt. The mummy of Tutankhamun is the only known mummy in the Valley Of The Kings to still lie in its original tomb, KV62. "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" was expected to draw more than three million people. The exhibition started in Los Angeles, California, then moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Chicago and Philadelphia. The exhibition then moved to London before finally returning to Egypt in August 2008. Subsequent events have propelled an encore of the exhibition in the United States, beginning with the Dallas Museum of Art in October 2008 which hosted the