The still untouched Tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922, or as the world knows him… King Tut
As a kid, I remember hearing about King Tut’s tomb. I think my dad had a Time/Life book collection and one of them was about Egypt and all the amazing things like the pyramids, the Sphinx and King Tut. This photo from the 1922 discovery was jaw-dropping. After hundreds of years of rumors and stories, Howard Carter and George Herbert lead a team into the “Valley of Kings” to find the long forgotten tomb. While the tomb had been robbed of many of its riches, presumably just months after Tutankhamun’s burial, the tomb was resealed and lost to all knowledge. In fact, a migrant camp that later became a settlement was built directly over the entrance and nobody knew about it until the day in 1922 when the above picture was taken. Since that time, the contents of the find have made their way around the world in displays everywhere.