Unofficial opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamun mb-artist Emily_Murray_Paterson looking west

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Plate 31 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever

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Unofficial opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamun mb-artist Emily_Murray_Paterson looking westLord Carnavon (1866 1923) leading the party invited to the unofficial opening of the tomb. A keen egyptologist, Carnarvon was archaeologist Howard Carter's financial backer in his excavations in the Valley of the Kings. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 was one of the most astounding discoveries in archaeology. Tutankhamun was a previously unknown pharaoh whose name had been eradicated from historical records by one of his successors because