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    09 May 2012| last updated at 11:52AM

    Google pays tribute to Howard Carter



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    KUALA LUMPUR: Google today paid tribute to English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter, who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, with a specially designed doodle on its homepage.

     

    Carter was born on May 9 1874.
     
    On November 4 1922, Carter's excavation group found the steps leading to Tutankhamun's tomb, by far the best preserved and most intact pharaonic tomb ever found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
     
    The clearance of the tomb with its thousands of objects continued until 1932.  Following his sensational discovery, Howard Carter retired from archaeology and became a part-time agent for collectors and museums, including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
     
    He died of lymphoma, a type of cancer, in Kensington, London, on 2 March 1939 at the age of 64. The archaeologist's (natural) death so long after the opening of the tomb, despite being the leader of the expedition, is the piece of evidence most commonly put forward by sceptics to refute the idea of a "curse of the pharaohs" plaguing the party that violated Tutankhamun's tomb.

     

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