The whole discovery of Tutankhamun needed both ingredients to make it work.
It wasn't only Howard Carter, it certainly wasn't only Carnarvon, but it needed the two of them.
Without the two of them, that discovery would never have been made.
He really met Carter some years after he began his first excavations because he first got permits
really around 1906 or so, and of course they're really very different characters with entirely different types of backgrounds
Great grandfather from the very old, I suppose, aristocratic family of the Herberts of Highclere
and the lone maverick adventurer, and of course, Howard Carter was another loner
I mean, a man who became inspector of antiquities of first Upper and then Lower Egypt but he got into major dispute at Saqqara.
and a lot of French tourists about whether they should or should not be inside a tomb and caused a diplomatic incident.
and Carter eventually resigned his position and he was rather unemployed, really.
For a man who had already developed a lot of skill as a recorder
archaeologist and expert on antiquities, Carter was making his living drawing paintings for tourists on the side of the Nile.
Great grandfather was introduced to Carter, perhaps as a way of bringing more experience and expertise on the ground
in line with a very keen and enthusiastic, as well as financially independent excavator in terms of my great grandfather
and the two of them together obviously became a much more powerful force, so it was really from 1909 onwards that Carter and Carnarvon were working together
and the two of them together obviously became a much more powerful force, so it was really from 1909 onwards that Carter and Carnarvon were working
Because of his wealth, he had five teams on the go at the same time in 1910
With perhaps 170 to 200 men on board in each team
They called Carnarvon "Lordy" - he paid them well, he had money.
He was well known at all levels of society - he was happy to be a diplomat intermediary negotiating at the most senior people.
If they hadn't found Tutankhamun, the discoveries would be considerable. It was an amazing achievement and a beautifully recorded achievement.
It was photographed, written up - it was a very good piece of work. The book about Thebes is outstanding.
There's a tent which he shipped over from England with loads of food from Fortnums
A tent for himself, a tent for his wife, a tent for Carter, a tent for his doctor
a tent for a dining room, a tent for food - it was extraordinary!
I was actually in Luxor last week and you can cross the Nile on a ferry the same way as they did then
but now on the other side, you get in an air-conditioned car and drive up to the Valley
In those days, you were on a mule or a pony for a long time, just getting up to Carter's House.
which has recently been restored.
Great grandfather financed the building of Carter's house near the entrance to the Valley
It's interesting the foundations of this rather wonderful part mudbrick building, came from one of great grandfather's houses.
The bricks from Bretby, which is up in the Midlands, which was a Midlands type of brick and part of the Bretby setup - they were shipped out to Egypt to be used in the foundations.
You did that kind of thing in those days.
Great grandfather had the concession in the Valley and he had agreed that for one more year of excavation
in 1922 and specifically, he knew they had to cover that final are near Ramesses VI's tomb because it was the one unexplored area
Mainly because they'd kept out the way of it for the previous two years so not to disturb tourists coming into the Valley
which is such a contemporary issue.
There were clues about Tutankhamun - Carter knew there was a missing Pharaoh from the descriptions of the linage of Pharaohs
that Menetho had worked out, that Tutankhamun was mentioned, but no information - it must have been a very brief reign.
The predecessor to their work in the Valley - Theodore Davis - the American
He'd found a shallow pit with garlands and flowers and there was little things with a cartouche of Tutankhamun's throne name
He sent things back to America, but rather thought Tutankhamun was so unimportant that he'd been buried in a shallow grave with a few objects.
In fact what that little pit was, was the priests who'd just sealed the tomb final ceremonial little moment 44 00:04:46,433 --> 00:04:50,25 I think Herbert Winlock was at the MET at the time.
He'd pointed out to Carter there was maybe something exciting here, because this little vase had Tutankhamun's throne name on
in the Valley, therefore it gave the idea that if that was the case, Tutankhamun should be buried somewhere in the Valley
but obviously they still at that stage had no idea where
and it was only barely 15-16 metres from Tutankhamun's actual tomb.
I think in a way, if people say mountaineers climb mountains because they're there
there was a quest to find a tomb, because it was there somewhere
in this amazing Valley, and of course the 18th Dynasty Pharaohs were buried in the Valley
and there was a missing one, and the Valley may yet reveal more secrets!