Lord Carnarvon - Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb 1923

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866 - 1923), English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, in 1922-3. Photograph showing Lord Carnarvon leaving Highclere Castle on a archaeological expedition with camera. Unfortunately Carnarvon died a couple of months later, when this photograph was taken from a mosquito bite

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