With candle in hand, he pushes his arm through the hole so that he might peer inside. Behind him, an anxious Lord Carnarvon speaks in a hushed whisper. "What do you see ?" An awed Howard Carter replies. "I see ... wonderful things." The Tomb of Tutankhamun contained a treasure of vaste riches, the sum of which can never really be calculated because of the priceless nature of the objects it contained. His eyes beheld treasures that no human eyes had seen in thousands of years.