Video: '26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun'

(Saturday, November 4, 1922; during the Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun) — British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discovered the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, ancient Egypt’s child-king, today in the Valley of the Kings near Al-Uqsur (Luxor) in southern Egypt.

Carter’s crew found a flight of steps that led to a doorway stamped with indistinct oval seals, called cartouches. Carter ordered the stairway be refilled and waited for Carnarvon to make his way to Egypt.

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On Nov. 26, 1922, with access to the tomb cleared again of debris, Carter made a tiny hole in a doorway and used the light of a candle to peer inside. Carnarvon asked if he could see anything. Carter replied with the famous words ‘Yes, wonderful things!’

Although Tutankhamun was one of the minor Pharaohs, the discovery of his tomb is significant for it is the most complete example of a royal tomb ever uncovered.