Howard Carter and a colleague excavating a tomb in the Valley of the Kings Horticultural Society figure 2: Bombus kirbiellus (bee)

figure 2: Bombus kirbiellus (bee)

by Humphry Davy

a main image with two uncoloured views of the upper body and underside

Original: oil on canvas

Howard Carter and a colleague excavating a tomb in the Valley of the Kings Horticultural Society figure 2: Bombus kirbiellus (bee)Howard Carter and a colleague excavating a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. Carter's (1873 1939) discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 was one of the most astounding discoveries in archaeology. Tutankhamun was a previously unknown pharaoh whose name had been eradicated from historical records by one of his successors because of his association with the heretical pharaoh Akhenaten, who was Tutankhamun's father in law. Consequently his