Talk:Howard Carter

message: I saw a NatGeoTV documentary where, as far as I remember, the search for the tomb of Tutankhamun has lasted 6 years. In the article it says 'few months' - might be that I am wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.144.216.154 (talk • contribs) 23:28, 7 March 2006
no it did last 6 years  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.78.119.176 (talk) 22:29, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Months instead of years? 

message: I have just read an article in the Eastern Daily Press about Howard Carter 26.03.2007 that states Carter was born in Swaffham not Kensington ,London.The town of Swaffham is very proud of its link with Carter and is devoting large area of its museum to him .We will have to clear up this confusion of his birth place. Northmetpit 12:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swaffham, Norfolk, England 

message: I have just come back from Thebes and the picture of the Howard Carter house in this article seems to be incorrect. The local Egyptians were conviced it was a house nearby, surrounded by trees. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fluffball70 (talk • contribs) 15:59, 29 January 2007
:The depicted building is indeed the 1950 Stoppelaëre House, overlooking Carter House. --Hvd69 (talk) 10:22, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The picture of the Howard Carter house 

message: There are 3 pictures in this article, which is in my opinion a little much for the size of this article, and not one of them is of Carter himself.  It seems ridiculous to me to have this many pictures on such a short article and not have one of himself - no matter how relevant the current pictures are.  I suggest removing the pictures of "KV62" and "Tutankhamun's tomb" as those pictures can already be found in their respective articles, and finding a picture of Carter himself.  Anyone agree? --Kurotsyn 23:08, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Shweeet!  Someone got a picture! :D  Well, the "Tutankhamun's Tomb" section looks a bit cluttered with all those pictures.  I still want to remove those images, but... I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do that myself.  So... uhhh... hmmm..--Kurotsyn 18:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture of Carter himself? 

message: I read somewhere in a history book that a snake ate his canary. I don;t know how it is relevant but the book made it seem iconic. Any thoughts on adding something in? Reginmund 05:51, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: apparently the death of his bird was from a cobra after the discovery of the tomb king tut something to do with a mummys curse or  so!!!!!!!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.2.165.239 (talk) 16:08, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The fate of his canary 

message: The article says "After a few months of fruitless searching" he found the tomb.  Isn't that several years of fruitless searching? Riordanmr (talk) 19:30, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Years, not months, of fruitless searching 

message: After watching a BBC documentary about the discovery of Tutankhamun I realised the influence of the archeologist Sir Leonard Woolley should be included in the article as according to the programme he suggested to search in the dig site which led to its discovery. HappyWanderer (talk) 12:44, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC Documentary 

message: I think the additional sentence on his gravestone should be added "Egyptologist, discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922"
Ref: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=3665&PIgrid=3665&PIcrid=658430&PIpi=291612& 
94.222.128.95 (talk) 21:55, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gravestone 

message: Though there's a redirect already in place, I've wikilinked and changed 'Tell el Amarna' to Amarna to be consistent with the usage and explanation here. Cheers Bjenks (talk) 08:22, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amarna 

message: There was a recent edit that changed affray to affair in the sentence about the Saqqara Affair (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard_Carter&oldid=491536484 ). I only discovered this when I was trying to figure out what the Saqqara Affair was all about (and saw the more descriptive affray in earlier versions of the article quoted elsewhere).  I think affray is a better word choice (once I found the definition -- note: affray should be linked to associated article if its rightful place in the article is restored).  Thoughts?  --Jhfrontz (talk) 18:16, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've restored it and linked the term. It would be great if someone could elaborate on the Saqqara Affair. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:08, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was the Saqqara Affair an affray? 

message: I thought wikipedia was open for everyone to edit. Silly users! =)174.19.142.36 (talk) 19:55, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this page locked?? 

message: Please can someone locate a source for cause of death as lymphoma? I have been unable to find a source quoting this so far. The current NYT source does not mention cause of death, only date.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.115.9.101 (talk) 21:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lymphoma is uncited 

message: Carter's diary entry for Nov 26, 1922 gives his reply to Carnarvon as "Yes, it is wonderful" rather than the oft-quoted "yes, wonderful things!".
https://web.archive.org/web/20070630024020/http://griffith.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/gri/4sea1not.html
Is there any indication that the later version is correct?  
73.149.246.232 (talk) 04:06, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Various forms of the quotation are recorded. Not long after the tomb was opened, Carnarvon gave Carter's words as "There are some marvelous objects here." But "Yes, wonderful things", which comes from Carter's book on the discovery, has become the most famous version. A. Parrot (talk) 05:55, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "yes, it is wonderful" vs "yes, wonderful things" 

message: At the beginning of the article it is written that Carter discovered Tutanchamon’s tomb. It MUST be written that he discovered it TOGETHER with Lord Carnarvon. I have noticed that the name Carnarvon doesn’t appear so often when the subject Tutanchamon is discussed. It is wrong and we must remember Lord Carnarvon as well. Without him Carter wouldn’t be there and wouldn’t discover anything.
It was actually the water boy that discovered it (as stated later in the article). Jame5 07961 (talk) 18:53, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Carter only 

message: Today he would surely be Sir Howard Carter (or maybe even Lord Carter of Wherever). Do reliable sources have anything to say about this? Such as that perhaps it was not normal to knight people for that sort of thing in those days, or that the British Royal Family perhaps disliked people who opened Royal tombs, or that perhaps the establishment feared knighting him might draw the mummy's curse on them, or feared that it might cause anti-British sentiment and unrest among any Egyptians who saw him as a foreign tomb-robber, or that the mummy's curse stuff had perhaps made him unpopular among ordinary Britons, or that his later attempt, currently unmentioned in the article (but mentioned in Ella Al-Shamahi's recent Channel 4 TV programme (Tutankhamun: Secrets of the tomb), to raise money to look for Alexander the Great's tomb in Alexandria (implausibly, as Alexander died in Babylon) perhaps damaged his credibility, or because he was a loner or difficult to befriend or hot-tempered or thought to possibly be gay, or because British racists and/or francophiles could never forgive him for siding with the Egyptians against the French over the Saqqara affair in 1905, or because of criticisms already found in this Talk section such as here and here, or whatever? Al-Shamahi's programme makes clear that he received little honour in his lifetime,but doesn't really say why, and all we currently say on the subject is that interest in Tut declined over time, and we mention the Saqqara affair and that he was a loner or difficult to befriend or hot-tempered or thought to possibly be gay, but without giving these as reasons for his lack of honours.Tlhslobus (talk) 20:19, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Joyce Tyldesley says something about it in Tutankhamun: The Search for an Egyptian King (2012), pp. 100–101. "Given that he [Carter] lived in an age when prominent British archaeologists and Egyptologists were routinely rewarded with knighthoods—Sirs Flinders Petrie, Leonard Wooley, Max Mallowan, Mortimer Wheeler and Alan Gardiner were either contemporaries, or near-contemporaries—he might reasonably have expected something similar. His lack of a patron, lack of a supporting institution and, perhaps, lack of breeding did not help his cause, but it may simply be that his own complex personality was to blame. Opinion among his contemporaries seems to have been more or less equally divided over whether Carter was simply shy and insecure over his lack of formal education, or an overbearingly arrogant boor." A. Parrot (talk) 01:22, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no knighthood? 

message: There has been some confusion about Howard Carter's birthplace. A quick Google search shows that some sources state Kensington and some state Swaffham, Norfolk. Obviously, these can't all be correct. Certain sources explain why this confusion is common. Here are several that state that he was born in Kensington, which when combined is the reason why I am restoring the status quo to Kensington.
* The History Channel says, "Howard Carter was born 9 May 1874 in Kensington, London to successful artist Samuel Carter. He was a sickly child and was sent to live with his aunts in Norfolk where he was given private home schooling." 
* National Geographic says, "Born in Kensington in 1874, Howard Carter was from a generational family of artists who worked around the Norfolk town of Swaffham...The youngest of eleven children, three of whom died in infancy, as a child he too was considered ominously sickly – enough for his parents to move his upringing from London to Norfolk, where he was raised largely by a nurse in the family’s Swaffham home." 
*The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea gov website says, "He was born and brought up at 10 Rich Terrace, now the site of Richmond Mansions, Old Brompton Road." 
It appears that the confusion is caused by him being born in Kensington and then being moved in early childhood to Swaffham. Fieryninja (talk) 19:38, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, both the major biographies of Carter (James and Winstone) confirm this point. A. Parrot (talk) 03:55, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carter's birthplace 

message: How did he die 77.103.161.235 (talk) 08:29, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: He died from Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer, which is stated in the "Death" section. I have rearranged the first sentence to make this more obvious. Merytat3n (talk) 07:01, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Howard carter