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Unit 5 Meeting your ancestors (Workbook) READING TASK A GREAT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN THE 20th CENTURY This was one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. Its find was as dramatic and exciting as the discovery itself. Here is the story. The first hint The first hint that led to the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun was on November 4th, 1922. Howard Carter, the excavator, noted in his diary： “At about 10 am I discovered underneath the first hut the first step of the entrance to the tomb…It seemed like a staircase(楼梯) to a tomb of the type of the 18th