At the age of 25, Carter was offered the job of Inspector General of Monuments for Upper Egypt by the Director of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, Gaston Maspero, in 1899.

• 1899年，25岁的时候，他被埃及文物管理处主任加斯顿.；马斯伯乐任命为上埃及遗迹总督察。