What Was Important About the Discovery of King Tuts Tomb?
Although the boy king, Tutankhamen, was a rather unimportant ruler 3200 years ago in Ancient Egypt, dying at the age of 18, the discovery of his tomb in 1922 gave the world its first “real-life” examples of these ancient peoples’ practice of burying their pharaohs with their treasures. Archeologist Howard Carter had been searchi
