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Howard Carter's career was a remarkable one: he had arrived in Egypt as a 17-year old "tracer" with rudimentary education, and progressed to become the first Chief Inspector of Antiquities in Upper Egypt. An improbable but auspicious partnership with the 5th Earl of Carnarvon developed in which the young Carter acted as assistant and "learned man" to the aristocrat's excavations in the Theban necropolis. But it was the legendary discovery of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings and Carter's painstaking clearance of the intact royal burial that was to secure his place in history. He became an international celebrity, simultaneously honoured and vilified wherever he went, but he was ... a sad, disillusioned man whose success never brought any reward of happiness. T.G.H. James biography is both the story of a renowned archaeologist and of an essentially tragic human being.
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Howard Carter (May 9, 1874 - March 2, 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He is most famous as the discoverer of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt. Howard Carter was born in 1874 in Kensington, London, the youngest son of eight children. His father, Samuel Carter, was an artist. His mother was Martha Joyce (Sands) Carter. Carter grew up in Swaffham, in northern Norfolk, and had no formal education.
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"Eighty-three years, three months, and six days exactly to Howard Carter's discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun, I announce today my belief that KV63 is indeed the tomb of King Tutankhamun's mother, Queen Kiya," stated Dr. Zahi Hawass. "The identification of KV63 as the final resting place of Queen Kiya helps to solve the riddle of the location of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. KV63 faces KV62, making it clear that the tomb was for someone near and dear to King Tutankhamun."KING TUT'S MYSTERY TOMB OPENED is the second program following the groundbreaking discoveries being made by Dr. Hawass and Dr. Otto Schaden, head of the University of Memphis archaeological team, who originally uncovered KV63. This one-hour exclusive special tracks the intense emotional and scientific investigation into the identity of the first tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings in more than 80 years.
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Howard Carter, Deputy Director of the Saco Wastewater Treatment Facility, served for many years with the Operations Challenge Team in the early '90's; both as a competitor and a coach. He ... served MWWCA as 2nd Vice President, First Vice President, then as the President. After that Howard became the MWWCA representative to NEWEA and will serve out his term this year- 2006. Howard did a great job at NEWEA facilitating the annual trips to Washington, D.C. by MWWCA officers. He was very smooth, polished and capable - a true gentleman. Howard was alsovery instrumental in working with Vivian Matkivich, NEWEA and Ruth Hallsworth on getting the Stockholm Junior Water Prize competition established in Maine schools.
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Howard Carter was born on May 9, 1874, in London, though his boyhood was spent primarily in Swaffham, Norfolk. His father, Samuel, was a successful animal portrait painter and it seems that young Howard inherited his father's artistic talent. Inspired by the immense collection of Egyptian antiquities owned by Lord Amherst, one of his father's clients, Howard's curiosity about ancient Egypt seems to have begun in his early years. In 1891, in association with Amherst and Egyptologist Perky Newberry, Carter worked in Egypt for the first time. During this apprenticeship young Howard served as an artist recording the decorated walls of tombs in Middle Egypt. On this same visit, Carter was able to work with William Matthew Flinders Petrie (whom many consider to be the father of modern archaeology) at the site of Akhenaten's ancient city at Tell el-Amarna.
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The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 is considered the most important archaeological find of the century. After years of painstaking work in the Valley of the Kings, Carter's patron, Lord Carnarvon, had warned him that that would be the last season of work because nothing significant had been found. On November 22 of that year, Carter's persistence finally paid off. Tutankhamun became a household name, and his magnificent treasures became the measuring stick for all future archaeological discoveries. The mysteries surrounding his life and death are gradually being solved. And his story continues to unfold as new theories are proposed in an attempt to explain what really happened to the boy behind the golden mask.
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