Howard Carter PowerPoint

How Can I Include This PowerPoint In My Lesson?

Teach your students all about Howard Carter, the famous archaeologist who led the team that found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.

This informative and attractive PowerPoint is the ideal resource to include in your history lessons about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in Ancient Egypt.

The PowerPoint provides biographical details about the life of Howard Carter from his birth in 1874 up until Howard Carter's death in 1939.

Your students will learn about Howard Carter's talents as an artist, his friendship and work with Lord Carnarvon, who funded the hunt for the tomb of Tutankhamun. Along with learning Howard Carter's skills and strengths. 

Your students will learn interesting facts about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and why this discovery was so significant.

Your students will learn all about the life achievements of Howard Carter and also learn more about Howard Carter's grave. Your kids will be interested to learn how Howard Carter's grave site honours his life work.

The PowerPoint includes beautiful illustrations and Harry Burton's original photographs from the 1920s, giving the children a really good insight into the life of Howard Carter.

You can use this PowerPoint to prompt a class discussion about Howard Carter's achievements and Howard Carter's death.

More Resources About This Topic:

There are a range of fantastic resources about Howard Carter, Tutankhamun and Tutankhamun's tomb available on our website!

You can browse these brilliant resources and select the ones that suit your class and lessons best. 

Some resources that we recommend are:

• Our Discovering the Past Through Photos and Artefacts: The Treasures in Tutankhamun's Tomb Resource Pack. This resource pack has everything you need for your next lesson about Tutankhamun's tomb.
• Consolidate your kid's learning with this Howard Carter Fact File Template. Your students can use their knowledge about Howard Carter to fill in the blank boxes on this template.
• Your kids can practice their writing skills with Howard Carter's Diary Writing Template. This writing activity is a great way for your kids to use their creativity and imagination about what Howard Carter must have been thinking and feeling when he discovered Tutankhamun's tomb.

Interesting Facts About Tutankhamun's Tomb:

We don't want to give away the facts about Howard Carter that have been packed into this resource. 

So, let us dig up some interesting facts about Tutankhamun's tomb:

• 5000 treasures were found hidden in Tutankhamun's tomb.
• The walls of the chamber in which Tutankhamun lay were covered in gold.
• It took ten years to fully explore this tomb and to catalogue the thousands of artefacts that were found.