howard carter recounted the story in his book the tomb of tutankhamun: howard carter: "hardly had i arrived on the work "thai was greeted by the announcement "that a step cut in the rock had been discovered." brown: but what had carter found? just another emptyomb? some unimportant storeroom? howard carter: "with trembling hands,madeh "in the upper left-hand corner of the doorway. "as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, "details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist. "surely, never before in the whole history of excavation "had such an amazing sight been seen "as the light of our torch revealed to us: "strange animals, statues, and gold. "everywhere the glint of gold. "we had seen enough. "we reclosed the hole, mounted our donkeys, "and rode home down the valley, strangely silent and subdued." brown: the discovery of tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 had an instantaneous and shattering effect on the world's imagination that continues to this very day. extraordinary numbers of visitors descended upon the tomb--sometimes to the point where the excavators were unable to function. egyptian

the senate concludes that carter's arguments were better. howard baker and abraham ribikoff helped carter get this done. and some months later, carter has the opportunity to mediate peace at the camp david accords. it was the vote -- the vote -- 28 democrats who went for and it 26 republicans. it was completely bipartisan and it was completely on the merits of how they saw that difficult issue. and they didn't spend months on

carter. sports is next. >>> now 9 sports with kristen berset, the best sports in town. >> maryland senior shawn moseley wasn't sugar coating things when asked about losing point guard howard the season. he said we're back to square one. tonight, though, they had no problem picking up the slack. a good performance with the terps hosting boston college. on fire early. 19 points in the first half. here is one of his five first half three pointers. he finished with 24. second half terps put bc away. watch this one handed jam. nice. maryland wins by 16. best finish of the night, virginia tech at florida state. 8 seconds to go. 1.8 seconds to go. buries the 3. seminoles up 1. race up court hoping for a miracle. but just misses. virginia tech loses a heart breaker 48-47. a back yard brawl basketball style. west virginia and pitt. chuck brian with 15 off the bench. west virginia wins 66-48. 8th ranked lady terps. the acc player of the week scored a career high 26 points as the terps sweep virginia for the first time in four years and hand the coach her 300th career win. major league baseball lost a legend today. hall of fame catcher gary carter passed away at the age of 57. he wa