Howard Carter: "Miraculous," Misunderstood Man Behind Google's
Doodle  British archaeologist Howard Carter (left) examines King
Tut's sarcophagus in 1922 (tinted photo).  Around the world
Wednesday, searchers were stumbling upon a gilt- and sepia-toned
artifact of the Internet agea Google doodle heralding the 138th
birthday of Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who
discovered the ancient Egyptian tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in
1922.  The King Tut find brought Carter overnight—and
lasting—fame, but it was anything but a stroke of luck, experts
say.  When talking about the tomb discovery, "everyone likes to
use the phrase 'stumble upon,' and that always ticks me off a
little bit," said Yale University Egyptologist John Darnell.
Carter spent decades as an archaeological excavator exploring
burial sites in ancient Thebes (now Luxor) before finding the
roughly 3,000-year-old resting place of Tutankhamen, Darnell
pointed out. (Take an interactive tour of Tut's tomb.)  "Carter
found [the tomb] in a methodical