Lord Carnavon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings Size:S: 36 x 28cm Monument to Edmund Crouchback

Monument to Edmund Crouchback

Full length portrait showing him leaning against a cannon

A small piece of racing history on one page

designed by Thomas Grubb

Lord Carnavon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings Size:S: 36 x 28cm Monument to Edmund CrouchbackLord Carnavon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1922. Lord Carnavon (1866 1923), his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert, and archaeologist Howard Carter (1874 1939) at the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun. Lord Carnarvon was Carter's financial backer in his excavations in the Valley of the Kings. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 was one of the most astounding discoveries in archaeology. Tutankhamun was a previously unknown