George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon was a British aristocrat and financial backer of archaeological work in Egypt. His partnership with Howard Carter led to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, an event that transformed public interest in Egyptology.
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon also held the offices or ranks of member of the House of Lords. George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon was born in Highclere Castle and died in Cairo.
In Elizabeth Peters’ Tomb of the Golden Bird, in 1922, Emerson remains convinced that Tutankhamun’s tomb lies in the Valley of the Kings, but the excavation rights belong to Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. In Christian Jacq’s The Tutankhamun Affair, The novel 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.