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Howard Carter (1874–1939) was a British anthropologist, archaeologist, egyptologist, and painter. Born in Brompton, London, he died of lymphoma in London and was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery. His primary fields of work included Egyptology, archaeology, and anthropology. Carter is noted for his involvement in the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and Tutankhamun's grave.
He authored works such as *The Creeping Death*, *One Mile Down*, *Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou*, *Into the Mummy's Tomb*, and *Tumba de Tutankhamon*. Carter spoke and wrote in English.
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Person · Open Library
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- The Creeping Death
- One Mile Down
- Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyou
- Into the Mummy's Tomb
- Tumba de Tutankhamon
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Active to
- 1939
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <i>OLEX2</i>: a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program
· 2009 · cited 31,413x
- The Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA: A Brief Screening Tool For Mild Cognitive Impairment
· 2005 · cited 21,944x
- MobileNetV2: Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottlenecks
· 2018 · cited 21,919x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,261x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
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Quotes
- “Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became known for discovering 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.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Howard Carter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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