On 4 November 1922, Howard Carter's workmen in the Valley of the Kings uncovered a step cut in the rock, the beginning of the sealed tomb of Tutankhamun, the young pharaoh who died about 1323 BC. Carter, funded by Lord Carnarvon, had been searching for six years. On 26 November he peered through a hole in the doorway and, asked if he could see anything, answered 'Yes, wonderful things'. The burial chamber was opened in February 1923, revealing the intact royal burial with a solid gold mask, a gilded shrine and more than 5,000 objects. It started a worldwide craze for Egypt.
Before and after
- 7 September 1922Founding of Bank of Latvia
- from 13 September 1922 to 22 September 1922Burning of Smyrna
- from 27 October 1922 to 30 October 1922March on Rome
- 31 October 1922Birth of Norodom Sihanouk
- 4 November 1922Howard Carter finds the tomb of Tutankhamun
- 11 November 1922Birth of Kurt Vonnegut
- 14 November 1922Founding of BBC News
- 14 November 1922Birth of Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- 16 November 1922Birth of José Saramago
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- from 25 February 1921 to 1 January 1991Georgian SSR
- 11 February 1929Founding of Vatican City
- from 5 December 1936 to 9 October 1991Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
- from 10 July 1940 to 29 August 1944Vichy France
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