More than a story of treasures: revisiting Tutankhamun's tomb 100 years after its discovery

Howard Carter, Ahmed Gerigar and King Tutankhamun's sarcophagus, opened three years after the tomb was discovered, in 1925. Wikimedia Commons

On November 4 1922, a young Egyptian “water boy” on an archaeological dig is said to have accidentally stumbled on a stone that turned out to be the top of a flight of steps cut into the limestone bedrock.

The stairs led to one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in history and the only almost intact funerary assemblage of a pharaoh – the Tutankhamun’s tomb.