Exactly 100 years ago today, Hussein Hassan Abdel Rassuhl, the water boy and most junior member of Howard Carter’s excavation team, discovered the first of 16 stone steps which, when unearthed, revealed the entrance to the tomb of #Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. The treasures of the tomb captivated audiences around the world. Carter described the solid-gold funerary mask of #Tutankhamun as ‘a beautiful and unique specimen of ancient portraiture', bearing 'a sad but calm expression suggestive of youth prematurely overtaken by death.'