A chariot being removed from Tutankhamun's tomb mb-code 00459070 12th September 1979

12th September 1979

Back home for evening premiere of 'A Hard Day's Night' at the Odeon Cinema

showing the front

Originally built for experimental purposes

A chariot being removed from Tutankhamun's tomb mb-code 00459070 12th September 1979The body of a gilt chariot being removed from Tutankhamun's tomb, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1920s. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter (1874 1939) 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