Article: What drew them to Tut's tomb.(COMMENTARY)

Byline: John M. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Mariners sail wine-dark seas in search of new continents. Mountaineers climb forbidding heights because they are there. But what prompts archaeologists to spend their lives digging in some of the world's least inviting areas, where failure and despair are far more prevalent than fortune and glory?

The answer is a complex one, and every contradiction was to be found in the career of Howard Carter, who gained fame when he discovered the fabulous tomb of Egypt's King Tut. Carter - a nervous, driven workaholic - is the subject of In the Valley of the Kings, a short, insightful biography by Columbia ...

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