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When was King Tut's tomb discovered?

The tomb of Egyptian king Tutankhamen (c. 1370–1352 B.C.), who is called King Tut today, was discovered in 1922 by English archaeologist Howard Carter (1873–1939). (An archaeologist is a scientist who studies the remains of ancient civilizations.) Carter found the tomb in the Valley of the Kings near ancient Thebes (present-day Luxor). Tutankhamen was a minor king during the Eighteenth Dynasty, the high point of the Egyptian empire. His was the only one of the twenty-seven pharaohs' tombs at Thebes that had not been emptied by treasure hunters. Unopened since ancient times, it was full of objects that had been placed there after King Tut's death. In the antechamber (outer room) Carter found more than six hundred artifacts including funeral bouquets, sandals, robes, cups and jars, a painted casket, life-size wooden statues of Tutankhamen, couches decorated with images of...

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