When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...

Highclere Castle in north Hampshire already had the Egyptian treasures discovered in Tutankhamun’s tomb by the 5th Earl of Carnarvon in 1922, but then, in 2010, came the hit television series Downton ...

Highclere Castle is known to hundreds of millions ... The 5th Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter discover the tomb of Tutankhamun. That's a really important part of Highclere's history.

The History Hit team has gained access to key places associated with this historic story: Highclere Castle, home of Lord Carnarvon; Tutankhamun’s Tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and his famous ...

Tutankhamun. She will speak about how the world’s most famous discovery was directed from her home, Highclere Castle, aka Downton Abbey from the hit ITV period drama.

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The third Downton Abbey film, due to air in September 2025, will thrust Highclere Castle, home of the 8th ... Carter’s mission to find Egypt’s Tutankhamun’s tomb. Many of the relics ...

His family seat, Highclere Castle, played home to Downton Abbey for six seasons ... discovered the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun alongside the archaeologist Howard Carter – his death the ...

Tutankhamun was a pharaoh like no other ... Lord Carnavon was born at Highclere Castle, England, where some few hundred Egyptian antiquities (including some from Tut’s tomb) were controversially ...

Early booking and group offers are available. Highclere Castle was the seat of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon who, in 1922, famously discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun with his colleague Howard Carter.

Highclere Castle/Image: JB + UK_Planet en Wikimedia Commons Resolved ... Carter presenting his patron with the key to the tomb of Tutankhamun/Image: public domain on Wikimedia Commons They began ...

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun by Howard Carter and the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Highclere Castle Spirits released a unique barrel aged ...