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When did Howard Carter's workmen uncover the first sealed step of Tutankhamun's tomb?
The first step appeared on 4 November 1922 after six years on this specific excavation. Lord Carnarvon had been about to cut the funding. He arrived on 23 November; the antechamber was opened on 26 November; the burial chamber on 16 February 1923.
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The British Archaeologist Who Found a Sealed Stairway in the Valley of the Kings on 4 November 1922 After Six Years of Funding-Threatened Excavation Howard Carter's workmen uncovered the first sealed step of Tutankhamun's tomb on 4 November 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. Carter had been hired by the Earl of Carnarvon in 1907 and had spent six years on the specific Tutankhamun excavation. Carnarvon had been about to cancel funding. The discovery of the substantially intact 18th-Dynasty royal tomb was the most significant Egyptological find of the 20th century.
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