The discovery of Tutankhamen in 1922 sparked a phenomenon of public interest in ancient Egypt.
It is a tale which reveals how the uneducated Carter\'s patronage under a series of gentlemen and world-class scholars prepared him for his work in a way no.
The achievement of the artist and the playboy, Carter and Carnarvon, who did the unthinkable by pipping academics to the post, remains one of the most dazzling feats of archaeology, on par with the conquest of Everest, or landing on the moon.
The discovery of Tutankhamen in 1922 sparked a phenomenon of public interest in ancient Egypt