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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Carter is the 4th most popular archaeologist, the 211th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 143rd 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 Theodor Mommsen, Jean-François Champollion, and Heinrich Schliemann. After him are Edward Drinker Cope, Arthur Evans, Den, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Colin Renfrew, Semerkhet, Marija Gimbutas, and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Howard Carter ranks 8. Before him are Guglielmo Marconi, Robert Frost, W. Somerset Maugham, Arnold Schoenberg, Harry Houdini, and Herbert Hoover. After him are Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, Ernst Cassirer, Sunjong of Korea, Chaim Weizmann, and Edward Thorndike. 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, W. B. Yeats, Eugen Bleuler, S. P. L. Sørensen, Ghazi of Iraq, Harvey Cushing, and Philipp Scheidemann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Howard Carter ranks 211 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Caine (1933), Rowan Atkinson (1955), Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796), Mick Jagger (1943), Alfred Russel Wallace (1823), and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930). After him are James Chadwick (1891), Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Anthony Giddens (1938), William Blake (1757), David Livingstone (1813), and Saint Boniface (680).

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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), Colin Renfrew (1937), George Smith (1840), George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866), Flinders Petrie (1853), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), John O. Westwood (1805), Max Mallowan (1904), Robert Broom (1866), and Colin Groves (1942).

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