This Day in Halloween: Archaeologist Howard Carter and team locate Tutankhamun's tomb, launching a curse legend and mummy movie sub genre. / Illustration by Whitney McGaw
British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team locate the entrance of Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. The discovery awakens new interest in Egyptian lore in the West, and inspires a myth about a curse and a new sub-genre of horror: The mummy movie.
