2022 - a historic year
Jan 12, 2022
3 minutes
DAVID HORSPOOL
What historical anniversaries can we look forward to this year?
As Eleanor Doughty writes on page 80, it was a century ago, in 1922, that Howard Carter chiselled away at the plastered door in the Valley of the Kings to reveal those ‘wonderful things’. The treasures from the tomb of Tulankhamun went to Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, only later beginning their globetrotting.
But even if London doesn’t have Carter’s most famous discoveries, you can see in the
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