PROJECT
Name :- Devansh Tiwari
Class :- 11th. 'B'
Subject :- English
Topic :- Discovering Tut : The Saga Continues
Subject Teacher :- Mr. Sanjeev Rai
Certificate
This is to certify that Devansh Tiwari a Student of class 11th 'B' , has
successfully completed the project "Discovering Tut : The Saga Continues"
under the guidance of Mr. Sanjeev Rai during the year 2020 - 2021.
Acknowledgment
We would like to express our special thanks to our teacher Mr.
Sanjeev Rai as well as our principal who gave us the golden
opportunity to do this wonderful project
"Discovering Tut : The Saga Continues", which also helped me
in doing a lot of research and we came to know about so many
new things. We are really thankful to them. Secondly we would
like to thank our friends to finalize and put our project all
together in limited time frame.
Discovering Tut : The Saga Continues
Tutankhamun's mummy was discovered by English Egyptologist Howard Carter
and his team on October 28, 1925 in tomb KV62 of Egypt's Valley of the Kings.
Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of
Egypt, making his mummy over 3,300 years old.
The burial chamber was found in 1922, but was not
opened until a year later. Two years passed between the
discovery of the tomb and that of the mummy and its
famous death mask. The discovery of the tomb as a
whole was one of the most significant and famous
archeological discoveries in modern times. There has
been much speculation about the king's life and cause of
death since very little information about him is known. 3
The urban
legend of a "curse of the pharaohs" rose in popularity
after the mummy's discovery.
8 Interesting facts to know about Tutankhamun :
Tutankhamun's status as ancient Egypt's most
famous pharaoh was cemented when his intact
tomb was discovered by archaeologist Howard
Carter in November 1922. But how much do you
know about the famous 'boy king'? Today I will
brings you the facts about King Tut.
1. His original name was not Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun was originally named Tutankhaten.
This name, which literally means "living image of
the Aten”, reflected the fact that Tutankhaten's
parents worshipped a sun god known as "the
Aten". After a few years on the throne the young
king changed his religion, abandoned the Aten,
and started to worship the god Amun who was
revered as king of manifest.
2. Tutankhamun has the smallest royal tomb in the
Valley of the Kings
The first pharaohs built highly conspicuous pyramids in
Egypt's northern deserts. However, by the time of the
New Kingdom (1550– 1069 BC), this fashion had ended.
Most kings were now buried in relative secrecy in rock-
cut tombs tunnelled into the Valley of the Kings on the
west bank of the Nile investigating the possibility that
there may be secret chambers hidden behind the
plastered wall of his burial chamber.
3. He was buried in a second-hand coffin
Tutankhamun's mummy lay within a nest of three golden
coffins, which fitted snugly one inside another like a set of
Russian dolls. During the funeral ritual the combined
coffins were placed in a rectangular stone sarcophagus.
Unfortunately, the outer coffin proved to be slightly too
big, and recorded in inscriptions and who may have been
Tutankhamun's immediate predecessor. We do not know
what happened to Neferneferuaten, nor how
Tutankhamun came to be buried in his or her coffin.
4. Tutankhamun loved to hunt ostriches
Tutankhamun's ostrich-feather fan was discovered lying in his
burial chamber, close by the king's body. Originally the fan
consisted of a long golden handle topped by a semi-circular
'palm' that supported. Howard Carter (left) and Arthur
Callender systematically remove objects from the antechamber
of the tomb of Tutankhamun with the assistance of an Egyptian
labourer. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
5. Tutankhamun's heart is missing
The ancient Egyptians believed that it was possible to live again
after death, but thought that this could only be achieved if the
body was preserved in a lifelike condition. This led them to
develop the science of artificial
mummification.
6. One of Tutankhamun's favourite possessions was an iron
dagger
Howard Carter discovered two daggers carefully wrapped
inside Tutankhamun's mummy bandages. One dagger had a
gold blade, while the other had a blade made of iron. Each
dagger had a gold sheath. Of the two, the iron dagger was by
far the more valuable because, during Tutankhamun's lifetime
(he reigned from c1336–27 BC).
7. His trumpets have entertained an audience of more
than 150 million
Tutankhamun's grave goods included a
small collection of musical instruments:
one pair of ivory clappers, two sistra
(rattles) and two trumpets, one made
from silver with a gold mouthpiece and
the other made of bronze partially.
8. Tutankhamun was buried in the world's most expensive
coffin
Two of Tutankhamun's three coffins were made of
wood, covered with gold sheet. But, to Howard
Carter's great surprise, the innermost coffin was
made from thick sheets of beaten gold. This coffin
measures 1.88m in length, and weighs 110.4kg. If it
were to be scrapped today it would be worth well
over £1m. But as Tutankhamun's final resting place
it is, of course, priceless.
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