The house consists of a single central hall topped by a dome, a study, and a photography laboratory. It was expanded after discovery of the tomb to serve as a place to register and study the antiquities discovered. The centenary celebrations in Luxor featured the opening of the newly restored Carter’s House, the mud-brick house Howard Carter (1874 – 1939) had built in 1911 near the entrance to the Valley of the Kings, and in which he lived until his death in 1939. The virtual tour can be accessed at the Visitors Centre in the Valley of the Kings. The SCA launched the first virtual tour of Tutankhamun’s tomb at the time of its discovery in 1922, complete with all the furniture and pieces it had then contained. Participating were ambassadors of various countries in Cairo, including UK, Poland, Italy, Mexico, Croatia, EU, US, Denmark, Chile, and Singapore, along with the UN Resident Coordinator in Egypt, the Canadian Cultural Advisor, representatives of local and international media, and Egyptian and non-Egyptian bloggers and influencers. It started off with a special visit to the tomb in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings, in which archaeologist and former Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass took part, together with Mustafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities launched a special programme to commemorate the occasion. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahir Square displayed a special exhibit of 18 artefacts that belonged to Tutankhamun, some of which were on show for the first time. It involved a November-long series of events that included special exhibits, lectures, and functions across the country. The centennial celebration of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb was thus, even though extensive and diverse, relatively muted.

The first was COP27, the World summit on climate change, held in Egypt’s Sharm al-Sheikh in 6 – 20 November 2022 the second was the football FIFA World Cup games in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022.

The centenary was to be given a grand commemoration in Egypt, but this never materialised, since the date was sandwiched between two grand global events that practically robbed the centenary of the limelight.

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