ABSTRACT:
The 90th anniversary of the discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun is about to take place later this year
( 2012). That milestone seems to have been lost off the world’s radar. Yet the list of books is long about the daring enterprise by George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Lord Carnarvon, the project’s patron, the egotist who spent his wife, Lady Almina’s money, on several years of excavations in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Things reached their zenith for Carnarvon and his archaeologist friend, Howard Carter, on 4 November 1922, when their army of diggers uncovered a stone staircase leading down to a lost treasure. The rest is a well-known fable, with Carnarvon not living long enough to see the end game. Less well known is Carnarvon’s epithet of “ Lordy” or The Lord - the half-mockish name(s) given to him by the natives of the desert. “Lordy!” is the title of the latest title to issue in the Carnarvon Series. The name Lordy! has been adopted throughout this forthcoming retrospective by William Cross, FSA Scot, on the early life of George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon
