Modern Era · Middle East · Exploration
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.
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