CARNARVON, GEORGE EDWARD STANHOPE MOLYNEUX HERBERT, 5TH EARL OF (1866-1923), Eng lish egyptologist, was born at Highclere, Berkshire, June 26, 1866, and educated at Eton and Trinity college, Cambridge. Always interested in Egyptian archaeology and politics, he began excava tions near Thebes with Mr. Howard Carter in 1906 and discovered tombs of the XII. and XVIII. Egyptian Dynasties in the Valley of the Kings. A further concession having been obtained in 1914, operations in another part of the Valley were conducted after the World War, resulting in the discovery by Mr. Carter in Nov. 1922 of the antechamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen (q.v.) of the XVIII. Dynasty. On Feb. 16, 1923, the sepulchral chamber was opened, the actual sarcophagus being discovered on Jan. 3, 1924. Meanwhile Lord Carnarvon had died in Egypt on April 5, 1923, from the results of a mosquito bite and pneumonia. See The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen by Howard Carter and A. C. Mace (1923).