With such evidence, as well as the sealed doorway between the two guardian statues of the King, the mystery gradually dawned upon us. We were but in the anterior portion of a tomb.

When Carnarvon asked "can you see anything?" Carter replied with the famous words: "Yes wonderful things. Although only 17 years old he was innovative in improving the methods of copying tomb decoration. All of these discoveries were eagerly covered by the world's press but most of their representatives were kept in their hotels; only H.

Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist known for discovering the tomb of 14th-century BC pharaoh Tutankhamun.