The house of the British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter, the man who led the team excavating the tomb of Tutankhamun. In 1907 French Egyptologist Sir Gaston Maspero recommended Howard Carter to Lord Carnarvon to hire him as a supervisor on the excavation project of Deir El Bahari’s tombs. His great accomplishment in this mission encouraged Lord Carnarvon to hire him again to lead the excavation of the Valley of Kings in Luxor. In November 1922, Carter made his great discovery of the secret chamber of Tutankhamun