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Article: Howard Carter: The Path to Tutankhamun.
- Article from:
- The Middle East
- Article date:
- February 1, 1993
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THE GENERAL understanding of the life and career of Howard Carter is dominated by his discovery in 1922 of the tomb of Tutankhamun. It is sometime overlooked that by this time he had already spent nearly 30 years in Egypt, much of it in archaeological activity other than excavation.
A new book, Howard Carter - The Path to Tutankhamun by T. G. H. James former Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, places the great discovery in the context of Carter's whole career, describing the clearly defined stages by which a young man of 17, brought to Egypt as a "tracer" and knowing little beyond how to use a pencil and an artist's brush was appointed at the age of ...