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Walking down the steps on Nov. 4, 1922, the archaeologists did not know what discovery lay before them, but 100 years later, the world knows: the Tomb of King Tutankhamen, the ancient Egyptian boy ...
Tutankhamun and his queen, Ankhesenamun Tutankhamun was born in the reign of Akhenaten, during the Amarna Period of the late Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.His original name was Tutankhaten or Tutankhuaten, meaning "living image of Aten", [c] reflecting the shift in ancient Egyptian religion known as Atenism which characterized Akhenaten's reign.
The ancient Egyptian boy king continues to astound and intrigue people around the world. King Tut’s tomb discovered 100 years ago. Take a look at unique treasures found inside
This statuette of Tutankhamun standing on a panther closely resembles images from the tomb of Seti II. [ 98 ] The fragmentary remains of burial goods in other tombs in the Valley of the Kings include many of the same objects found in Tutankhamun's, implying that there was a somewhat standard set of object types for royal burials in this era.
A likeness of Egyptian King Tutankhamun (1340 BC). Archive Photos - Getty Images Lord Carnarvon suffered a mosquito bite while in Egypt, and one day during shaving, he accidentally cut the bite ...
He doesn't exactly live up to the king's glamorous burial mask. The autopsy suggests the limp was due to a clubfoot, which is a condition that causes a persons foot to turn inward at a severe angle.
This exhibition, featuring completely different artifacts from those in Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, first ran at the Ethnological Museum in Vienna, from 9 March to 28 September 2008, under the title Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs. It featured a further 140 treasures from the Valley of the Kings, including objects ...