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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 ...
King Tutankhamen’s tomb today. Over the years, King Tutankhamen’s tomb, stone sarcophagus with three nesting coffins, and mummified body have been carefully preserved, photos show.
It is smaller and less extensively decorated than other Egyptian royal tombs of its time, and it probably originated as a tomb for a non-royal individual that was adapted for Tutankhamun's use after his premature death. Like other pharaohs, Tutankhamun was buried with a wide variety of funerary objects and personal possessions, such as coffins ...
On February 16, 1923, Carter opened the innermost chamber and found the sarcophagus of King Tut.” It was the discovery of a lifetime: a fully intact tomb, the likes of which had never been ...
The Universal horror films The Mummy (1932), The Mummy's Hand (1940), and the latter's sequels, contain references to a curse foretelling death to those who enter the tombs. Pharaoh's Curse (1957 film) The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964 film) The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980 film)
Ancient Egypt's most famous Pharaoh wasn't as attractive as his reputation made him out to be. A BBC documentary detailed new findings by researchers who performed a "virtual autopsy" on King Tut ...
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 ...
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