Lord Carnavon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings Size:Standard: 6 x 4in leans against the wall

leans against the wall

Joanna Lumley

This 'telescopic philanthropy' was epitomised by Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House

New London Bridge

pictured at home in Denham

Lord Carnavon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings Size:Standard: 6 x 4in leans against the wallLord Carnavon's first visit to the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1923. Lord Carnavon (1866 1923) and a party in a motor car. Carnarvon was archaeologist Howard 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 pharaoh whose name had been eradicated from historical records by one of his