Just over 100 years ago, in November 1922, one of the most amazing archaeological discoveries ever made took place in the Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where British Egyptologist Howard Carter was leading a dig.
‘Can you see anything?’ the dig’s patron, Lord Carnarvon, asked.
‘Yes,’ replied Carter. ‘Wonderful things!’
Now the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb is being celebrated in a fittingly splendid set of stamps from Royal Mail.
As the stamps display, ‘wonderful things’ was something of an understatement. Carter and his team had unearthed the intact tomb of Tutankhamun – KV62, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever to be found in the Valley of the Kings. By the light of a candle, Carter could make out a cache of unbelievable artefacts: ritual objects encompassing everything that
