On November 4th, 1922, while exploring Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter and his team of grave robbers discovered a step that would, weeks later, lead them into the burial chambers of King Tutankhamun, an Egyptian Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty. A boy king who spent very little time on the throne, Tut's true cultural significance is that his tomb went essentially untouched for over 3 millennia allowing the modern world the most complete view of Egyptian burial practices, as well as the most complete set of Egyptian burial tchotchkes which have since toured the World numerous times over.
Watch Steve Martin walk like an Eqyptian (and as a bonus, a surreal, fascinating, yet relatively lame Heckle & Jeckle cartoon), celebrate Teela's birthday, and read more about today after the jump:
