Museum · Egypt
Howard Carter House
The mudbrick west-bank home Howard Carter built in 1910, his Luxor base during the search for and clearance of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
Where it is
25.7389, 32.6282
Why go
Howard Carter designed this domed mudbrick house in 1910 and lived in it while he and his collaborators uncovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922; he kept it as his Luxor home until he died in 1939. The plan centres on a domed hall with bedrooms, workrooms and a photographic darkroom, and it never had running water or electricity in his day. After passing from the Metropolitan Museum to Egypt’s antiquities service, it opened as a museum in 2009. A full-size replica of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Factum Arte stands in the grounds.
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