# Carter’s diary records the 4–5 November 1922 discovery of KV62’s steps

Date: 1922

## The fact

On 4–5 November 1922 Howard Carter’s pocket diary, now on the Griffith Institute site, records the discovery of steps under Ramesses VI’s tomb and intact seals. It is not the 18th-Dynasty sealing.

## Context

A find can open knowledge and start a colonial fight. Split the Times exclusive.

[Tutankhamun](/people/tutankhamun) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official archive, museum, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Howard Carter’s diary and journal 1922 — Griffith Institute (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4sea1not.html; Griffith Institute / University of Oxford).

## Significance

A 1922 diary entry of steps is a knowledge-access ignition, not a title deed.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Tutankhamun: https://factrail.ai/people/tutankhamun

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tutankhamun
- https://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4sea1not.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tut-1922-steps