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He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...
Tutankhamun inherited a throne tainted by the shifts in religious and political practices implemented by his father, Akhenaten. His reign had been hallmarked by the move from the capital city of ...
To mark 100 years since its discovery, Garry Shaw, the author of a new biography of the Egyptian Boy King, reveals some little-known facts about the world’s most famous death mask ...
Upgrading from these finds, it could be that these rooms contain more of Tutankhamun’s funerary goods. It has been suggested that it contains the burial of another royal member of the family.
Howard Carter’s team found Tutankhamun’s tomb filled with Ancient Egyptian luxury goods, deposited in the tomb for the Boy King to make use of in the afterlife.
After Akhenaten’s death, the young Tutankhamun became king. ... Carter’s glimpse of Tutankhamun’s grave goods that day was a rare reward in a life marked by setbacks and financial difficulties.
The discovery of the Boy King’s tomb in November 1922 stunned the world. ... noting how Carter spirited a few of Tutankhamun’s grave goods out of Egypt. ... his tragic death, ...
At the time, scholars didn’t know much about King Tutankhamun (King Tut), the boy king who ruled for about a decade. King Tut wasn’t a pharaoh that many historians considered important. But his death ...
A number of Neferneferuaten’s funerary goods were discovered to have been similarly adopted for Tutankhamun's use, suggesting that she was never buried with them.
EGYPTOLOGISTS have been left baffled by a number of very unusual discoveries inside Tutankhamun’s tomb 101 years after it was first opened. The former King of Egypt’s life has been surr… ...