# The Times of London holds an exclusive contract on the tomb’s news as Carter digs

Date: 1922

## The fact

In late 1922 Lord Carnarvon’s arrangement with The Times restricted first news of KV62 to a London paper. [Tutankhamun](/people/tutankhamun) did not sell a serial. Egyptian and other journalists were fenced out.

## Context

A paid exclusive can fund a dig and can also privatise a national find. Split the 26 November ‘wonderful things’ knowledge gain onto its own row.

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: Griffith Institute — Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/; Griffith Institute / University of Oxford).

## Significance

A 1922 press exclusive is a knowledge-access harm for everyone not holding the contract.

## 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 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

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

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tutankhamun
- https://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tut-times-exclusive-1922