Son of Original Finder Says His Father, Not Carter, Discovered King Tut’s Tomb and Its Secrets

The 84-year-old Luxor man said his father, Hussein Abdel-Rasoul, was 12 when he pointed British archaeologist Howard Carter to a tilted stone on Luxor’s West Bank in Nov 1922.

Ancient sculpture of the Sphinx at the Cairo Museum.

Ancient sculpture of the Sphinx at the Cairo Museum.

(photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)

ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

OCTOBER 30, 2025 23:35