biography
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Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of
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pronunciation:
[kah(r)nah(r)von]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1866–1923)
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| biography:
| Amateur Egyptologist, born at Highclere Castle, Hampshire, S England, UK. From 1907 he sponsored Howard Carter's excavations of royal tombs at Thebes. He died shortly after the spectacular discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. |
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