Howard Carter was an English archeologist who was the first to find King Tut's tomb. On November 4, 1922, Carter and his group discovered the first step of a staircase that lead down to the entrance of King Tut's tomb. Scientists call this find, "the greatest archeological find in all of history." When Carter found the entrance to the tomb, he went inside to explore. Inside, he found King Tutankhamun's tomb, along with a huge room full of treasures. (jackpot!)When Howard Carter started examining the tomb, he saw that there were 3 different layers until the actual coffin. (jeeez!) All of the layers were made out of gold. When Carter finally got to the coffin, he was trying to get the lid of when he noticed it was glued on to the bottom. As Carter perservered, he eventually got the lid off and saw Tutankhamun. Along with King Tut, there was also walking stcks, pictures, little statues, and even another body in the coffin! (creepy!) Then, Carter was trying to gently take the body out when he found out it was glued to the bottom of the coffin. (those Egyptians were really trying to make things difficult!!) After very gently removing the glue, Carter started to do x-rays on Tut's body and discovered the rarest find in history.
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