Howard Carter

Howard Carter was a British archaeologist best known for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun. Working with the financial support of Lord Carnarvon, he excavated in the Valley of the Kings and opened the largely intact royal tomb in 1922 after years of searching.

In Christian Jacq’s The Tutankhamun Affair, the narrative follows the early twentieth-century search for Tutankhamun’s tomb, focusing on Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon as they pursue the hidden burial of a little-known pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings.