Lord Carnarvon, prior to
his death, was more than a
silent financial partner in
the discovery of
the tomb of
King Tutankhamun. Were
it not for him,
Howard Carter would not
only have lacked the
financing and the concession
to dig in the
Valley of the Kings, he
would have also lacked the
political clout for what
was, in the early 1900s a
very publicly visible
pursuit. The English Earl of
Carnarvon apparently did not
grow up with a fascination
for
Egyptology. Rather he
stumbled into it much like
many others of his day.
