Guns, Drugs and Girls

By 1909 Carter was back at work in Egypt as an archeologist and artist with the commission that made his famous, from the 5th Earl of Carnarvon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert,_5th_Earl_of_Carnarvon a wealthy peer and aristocrat who financed a new archaeological dig in Egypt. (Carnarvon financed this expedition in part by the  £500,000 marriage settlement he received from his ex-wife, an heir of the Rothschild family, who secured a fifteen year concession to excavate in the Valley of the Kings. On November 4th, 1922 the first steps leading to the tomb of King Tutankhamun were discovered. A few months later they opened the burial chamber. What they found was a literal treasure trove of artifacts, much of it stacked in a glorious mess. Documentation and preservation of each artifact was a monumental task. Each item was sketched by Carter and descriptions were made.