Howard Carter and Tutankhamun - Do you dig 19 year old Egyptians?

Howard Carter and Tutankhamun - Do you dig 19 year old Egyptians?

Like all primary school children in Britain, Evie will be studying the Ancient Egyptians at some point. So we have decided to give her a head start by talking about one of the most famous events of the 20th Century, the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.


With quick explainers of why Pharaoh's started being buried in the Vally of the Kings, and how Tutankhamun came to die at the age of only 19 (though without mentioning the fact he was a child of incest and was married to his own sister). We follow the story of Howard Carter, a self-taught illustrator with a single-minded ambition who would do anything to stay in Egypt and keep searching for the elusive boy-king and in doing so became one of the most famous archeologists ever...


...Shame he hated talking to people.


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