ARCHAEOLOGIST

Howard Carter

1874 - 1939

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Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Carter has received more than 3,673,722 page views. His biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Howard Carter is the 4th most popular archaeologist, the 143rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 168th in 2019) and the most popular British Archaeologist.

Howard Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who is most famous for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Howard Carter ranks 4 out of 151. Before him are Jean-François Champollion, Heinrich Schliemann, and Theodor Mommsen. After him are Den, Arthur Evans, Edward Drinker Cope, Semerkhet, Zahi Hawass, Nynetjer, Marija Gimbutas, and Christian Jürgensen Thomsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Howard Carter ranks 7. Before him are Winston Churchill, Robert Frost, Guglielmo Marconi, Harry Houdini, Arnold Schoenberg, and Herbert Hoover. After him are Chaim Weizmann, Ernst Cassirer, Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, Edward Thorndike, and Gertrude Stein. Among people deceased in 1939, Howard Carter ranks 4. Before him are Sigmund Freud, Pope Pius XI, and Alphonse Mucha. After him are Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Roth, Eugen Bleuler, W. B. Yeats, James Naismith, Werner von Fritsch, Philipp Scheidemann, and Anton Makarenko.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Howard Carter ranks 143 out of 8,785. Before him are George IV of the United Kingdom (1762), Roald Dahl (1916), Michael Caine (1933), William Blake (1757), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), and Cat Stevens (1948). After him are Eric Clapton (1945), Mary Boleyn (1499), Jane Birkin (1946), Æthelstan (895), Anna Wintour (1949), and Rowan Atkinson (1955).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Howard Carter ranks 1. After him are Arthur Evans (1851), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Flinders Petrie (1853), George Smith (1840), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), Max Mallowan (1904), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Alan Gardiner (1879), and Kathleen Kenyon (1906).

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