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King Tutankhamun

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KING

TUTANKHAMUN
SOME INFO ON TUTANKHAMUN

• King Tutankhamun is one of the most famous


rulers who ever lived thanks to the 1922
discovery of the pharaoh’s tomb in
Egypt’s Valley of kings.The find stirred the
imaginations of millions who were fascinated
by the boy king’s golden-masked mummy.
A YOUNG TUT ASCENDS TO THE THRONE

• Born during ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty—which stretched from


1550 B.C. to 1295 B.C.—Tut began his life under a different name:
Tutankhaten.
• In the years before Tut rose to the throne, Egypt was going through a
period of great upheaval. King Amenhotep IV, who is believed to be
Tut’s father, had turned away from his culture’s many gods to
worship a sun god called the Aten. In honor of the new deity, he
changed his own name to Akhenaten and named his son Tutankhaten,
meaning “living image of Aten
• But around 1336 B.C., King Akhenaten died after about
17 years on the throne—and nine-year-old Tut ascended
to power. The boy king restored the old ways of the
kingdom, bringing back its many gods and opening new templesTut also changed his
name to Tutankhamun, which meant the “living image of Amun,” the Egyptian god of the air.
He also took on the throne name, Nebkheperure, which was a nod to the old sun god Re. He
married a woman named Ankhesenamun, a daughter of Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti.
While the couple are not thought to have left any surviving children, two mummified fetuses
found in Tut’s tomb were likely their stillborn daughters.
TUT’S LEGACY

• The rest of Tut’s short reign was fairly unremarkable. Ruling for only
about nine years, Tutankhamun was one of the lesser known pharaohs
of his time. Some scholars theorize that royal advisers and priests may
have even used the boy king as a puppet to reclaim power for
themselves. Others suggest that Tut’s successors removed his name
from monuments and records because of his association with the
reviled Akhenaten.
KING TUT’S DEATH

• One of the puzzles that has most vexed historians and scientists alike is how
Tut died.
• Theories have abounded ever since British archaeologist Howard Carter
discovered Tut’s tomb in 1922. Some suspect that he was murdered or died
from malaria or another devastating disease. Others have hypothesized that
Tut’s chest—which is missing ribs and a sternum—might have been crushed
in an accident or fall from his chariot. Still others argue that he likely died an
invalid, pointing to evidence of a clubfoot and canes that he may have used to
walk
DISCOVERY OF KING TUT’S TOMB

• British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discover a step leading
to the tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt on
November 4, 1922.
• When Carter first arrived in Egypt in 1891, most of the ancient Egyptian tombs
had been discovered, though the little-known King Tutankhamen, who had
died when he was 18, was still unaccounted for. After World War I, Carter
began an intensive search for “King Tut’s Tomb,” finally finding steps to the
burial room hidden in the debris near the entrance of the nearby tomb of King
Ramses VI in the Valley of the Kings. On November 26, 1922, Carter and fellow
archaeologist Lord Carnarvon entered the interior chambers of the tomb,
finding them miraculously intact.
• Thus began a monumental excavation process in which Carter carefully
explored the four-room tomb over several years, uncovering an
incredible collection of several thousand objects. The most splendid
architectural find was a stone sarcophagus containing three coffins
nested within each other. Inside the final coffin, which was made out of
solid gold, was the mummy of the boy-king Tutankhamen, preserved
for more than 3,000 years. Most of these treasures are now housed in
the Cairo Museum.

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