Howard Carter, was an English Egyptologist, who had a hunch that Tutankhamun still lay in the valley. Using money from his patron, Lord Carnarvon, Carter spent seven long years in the boiling heat searching and searching. In November 1922, he was just about to give up when his Egyptian labourers uncovered a series of steps leading down to a sealed door.

Carter broke the seal on the door and saw a passageway filled with stone and rubble. On November 26th Carter, with Lord Carnarvon at his side, started to break through a second sealed door.

As Carter wrote, "the day of days, the most wonderful that I have ever lived through. With trembling hands I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner. Then, widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in, Lord Carnarvon standing anxiously beside me to hear the verdict. At first I could see nothing, but presently, as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement."