This Day in Halloween: British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team locate the entrance of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. / Illustration by Alyssa Fujiwara
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.
