George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon was a British aristocrat and financial backer of archaeological work in Egypt. His partnership with Howard Carter led to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, an event that transformed public interest in Egyptology.

In Christian Jacq’s The Tutankhamun Affair, the narrative follows the early twentieth-century search for Tutankhamun’s tomb, focusing on Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon as they pursue the hidden burial of a little-known pharaoh in the Valley of the Kings.