If you take a peek at the 1891 census, living at 10 Rich Terrace, Kensington was Samuel Carter and his family. Samuel was an artist, an occupation that had certainly interested his son, Howard, who is recorded as an Art Student.
This interest and talent in art was noticed by Lady Amherst, who arranged for Howard to visit Ben Hasan, an ancient Egyptian cemetery. It was here that he copied the tomb decorations and from 1894 to 1899 he helped to record the wall reliefs in the temple of Hatshepsut.
But it was not his artistic skills that Howard Carter is best remembered as it was today, 16th February in 1923, that he opened the sealed doorway and confirmed it led to a burial chamber, containing the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen.
This interest and talent in art was noticed by Lady Amherst, who arranged for Howard to visit Ben Hasan, an ancient Egyptian cemetery. It was here that he copied the tomb decorations and from 1894 to 1899 he helped to record the wall reliefs in the temple of Hatshepsut.
But it was not his artistic skills that Howard Carter is best remembered as it was today, 16th February in 1923, that he opened the sealed doorway and confirmed it led to a burial chamber, containing the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen.