Egypt kept every object from Tutankhamun's tomb and paid the Carnarvon heirs their costs in 1930

Lord Carnarvon paid for Howard Carter's excavations in the Valley of the Kings under a concession from Egypt's Antiquities Service. Carter found Tutankhamun's tomb in November 1922. Carnarvon died on 5 April 1923, and his widow Almina, Countess of Carnarvon, paid for the clearance. In February 1924 Carter halted work after the government barred the excavators' families from a viewing. The Minister of Public Works, Morcos Hanna, terminated the Carnarvon concession, and Carter sued in Egypt's Mixed Courts. After a change of government, an agreement in January 1925 let the work resume: Lady Carnarvon kept funding it and gave up her claim to a share of the objects. Carter returned to the tomb on 25 January 1925. Every object stayed in Egypt. In late September 1930 the Egyptian government paid the Carnarvon heirs £E35,971, covering expenses from the discovery to April 1929. Other objects surfaced later. In July 1987, after the 6th Earl's death, the retired butler Robert Taylor led the family to cupboards between double doors at Highclere Castle. They held more than 300 Egyptian objects from the 5th Earl's earlier digs, which Carter had left behind in 1924. After Carter died in 1939, his niece and heir Phyllis Walker found objects from the tomb among his possessions and had them returned to Egypt. In November 2010 the Metropolitan Museum of Art recognised Egypt's title to 19 objects from the tomb, mostly fragments and samples. They arrived in Egypt on 2 August 2011.