1922

Tutankhamun's tomb opened

November 4, 1922

In the Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter chiseled through a sealed door, held up a candle, and saw, as he put it, wonderful things: gold couches, a chariot, the boy pharaoh's funeral mask. The world fell into a fit of Egyptomania that shaped fashion, architecture, and Hollywood sets for a decade.

More from 1922 Modern Era

In context

Also in 1922 (6 other events on record)

Mussolini's march on Rome · Europe · Politics
Soviet Union declared · Europe · Politics
Ottoman Empire abolished · Middle East · Politics
Joyce's Ulysses published in Paris · Europe · Culture
BBC founded · Europe · Culture
Treaty of Rapallo · Europe · Politics

Before and after in Middle East

Before: 1920: Greco-Turkish War rages in Anatolia
After: October 29, 1923: Ataturk founds the Turkish Republic

Before and after in Exploration

Before: 1911: Machu Picchu rediscovered
After: May 9, 1926: Byrd flies over the North Pole

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Tomb of Tutankhamun