# Egyptian authorities lock the tomb after a dispute over access and division

Date: 1924

## The fact

In February 1924, during a political crisis, the Egyptian government closed KV62 and cancelled Carter’s season after fights over visitors and the status of the find. Colonial concession versus national title is the governance path.

## Context

Both sides claimed law. A lockout is not a criminal conviction. It is a dated fight over who may enter a king’s burial. Later settlement resumed work under tighter Egyptian control.

[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 1924 lockout is a heritage-governance clash, not a solved title case.

## 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 [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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 attached driver is institutional-corruption. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. 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

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption

## 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-1924-lockout