00:00 Archaeologist Harold Jones uncovered some of the first clues which eventually led to
00:05 the discovery of Tewnk Carmen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings by his pals Howard Carter
00:11 and Lord Carnarvon, but he tragically died from tuberculosis a few years before history's
00:16 greatest find.
00:18 To commemorate the centenary his key role has now been celebrated with the unveiling
00:22 of a blue plaque outside the Orkshire home where he was born in Sackville Street, Barnsley in 1877.
00:30 Special guests helping the Barnsley Mayor were today's Lady Carnarvon and Barnsley's
00:34 BAFTA TV award winning Professor Joanne Fletcher who earlier both gave talks in the Town Hall.
00:41 The plaque was made possible following a joint project between Barnsley Museums, the Barnsley
00:46 Civic Trust and immortal Egypt TV star Joanne.
00:50 Today has been a wonderful day, it's the sort of culmination of almost 20 years research,
00:57 it's sort of a wonderful celebration marking the achievements of this man, Ernest Harold
01:03 Jones who was born in this very house here at the heart of Barnsley and he went on to
01:08 achieve so much in his short life and it was Harold who really did find the very earliest
01:16 clues or recognise the significance of these clues that named a then little known pharaoh
01:21 Tutankhamen so you could say thanks to Harold this path to Tutankhamen truly began and in
01:28 his own quiet modest way he really did lay the foundations for the greatest archaeological
01:35 discovery of all time.
01:37 It was a lovely invitation from Joanne Fletcher to come up and be part of the story, there
01:42 are all these smaller stories which led to the discovery of Tutankhamen which is the
01:47 big story in the headlights if you like in the global lights of the world media but it
01:52 wasn't an overnight success, it was built on many small stories and teamwork and other
01:58 people's discoveries in order to reach the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922,
02:03 11 years after he died.
02:05 Joanne Fletcher is the one who has done the work to highlight where Harold was airbrushed
02:13 out of history, what a fantastic job, piece of work she's done.
02:17 (whooshing)
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