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  2. Tutankhamun - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Friday marks 101 years of intrigue: The finding of King Tut's ...

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    Tutankhamun, popularly referred to as "King Tut" today, ruled from about 1332 B.C. until his death in about 1323 B.C. He ascended to the throne while still a child, and his rule was relatively ...

  4. Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun - Wikipedia

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    The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by excavators led by the Egyptologist Howard Carter, more than 3,300 years after Tutankhamun's death and burial. Whereas the tombs of most pharaohs were plundered by graverobbers in ancient times, Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden by debris for most of its existence and ...

  5. Tomb of Tutankhamun - Wikipedia

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    Yet Tutankhamun's burial goods barely fit into his tomb, so the Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley argues that larger tombs in the valley may have contained assemblages of similar size that were arranged in a more orderly and spacious manner. [97] This statuette of Tutankhamun standing on a panther closely resembles images from the tomb of Seti II. [98]

  6. Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty. Pegasus Books. ISBN 9781639363063. Kozloff, Arielle; Bryan, Betsy (1992). Royal and Divine Statuary in Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and his World. Cleveland. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Kuhrt, Amélie (1995). The Ancient Near East: c. 3000–330 BC.

  7. Tutankhamun's mummy - Wikipedia

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    Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom and ruled for about a decade c. 1355–1346 BCE. A majority of his reign was devoted to restoring Egyptian culture, including religious and political policies; his predecessor and father Akhenaten had altered many Egyptian cultural aspects during his reign, and one of Tutankhamun's many restoration policies included ...

  8. Chariots of Tutankhamun - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of full chariot setup in the Milwaukee Public Museum, 2022. A study of Tutankhamun's chariots from 2000 found that the structure of the wheels, the spokes, the materials chosen for the sleeve bearings, the use of animal fat for lubrication and the design as a whole are remarkable, being comparable to European carts of the 19th century AD. [4]

  9. Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun

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    Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs was expected to draw more than three million people. [20] The exhibition started in Los Angeles, California, then moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Chicago and Philadelphia. The exhibition then moved to London [25] before finally returning to Egypt in August 2008.