Howard Carter's Diary

Dear Diary,

Today is my final chance to find Tutankhamen, the boy king's tomb. I've been searching for five years FOREVER!

I continued digging like I did yesterday. Suddenly I hit something hard. I felt so excited that I dug so furiously my arms almost came off! Then I looked at the progress I was making. I noticed there was a step. I kept on digging. Then there was another step, and another, and another, and another! Soon I finished clearing the dirt. I contacted Lord Carnavon and told him about it. He rushed over to Egypt. We both walked down the steps with a torch descending into the darkness...

Suddenly we hit a dead end. It was blocked with bricks. The strange thing was that some of the bricks were different colours. That means that someone probably broke in already and replaced it with a different colour brick. I was disappointed at first but then I noticed that the colours were spread out. That means that they only dug small holes and they couldn't possibly take out lots of big treasures! We started taking the bricks out one by one. Then we hit another dead end and did the same. Suddenly we entered a room full of gold and treasures. Then we saw something in the middle of the room, that something was...

To be continued...

Tutankhamen's Sarcophagus! It was made of gold. Gems and jewels were on the sarcophagus. Hieroglyphics filled the room, everywhere you look there was hieroglyphics. On the canopic jars, on the sarcophagus, even on the walls! It took us several days just to carry it all out. People from all around the globe came to Egypt just to come and see this, it was hard keeping everyone out.

After a few weeks we eventually carried everything to the museum. I can't believe I actually found King Tut, the boy king's tomb!

From: Howard Carter

By Phoebe