Über cute English-Irish actor (and onetime model for Burberry) Max Irons has been tapped to play the British archaeologist Howard Carter in a forthcoming four-part television series charting the notoriously cantankerous scholar’s discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. The 29-year-old, the son of actors Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack, will be joined by the Irish-born actor Sam Neill, who will be playing Howard’s aristocratic backer, Lord Carnarvon. Neill will surely be able to offer Irons a few pointers on digging in the dirt, having played the palaeontologist Dr Alan Grant in the 1993 film Jurassic Park. The filming of the much-anticipated ITV series is due to begin in South Africa in mid October.