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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.
Carter and Carnarvon became internationally famous, [74] and Tutankhamun, formerly unknown to the public, became so familiar as to be given a nickname, "King Tut". [75] Tourists in Luxor abandoned the normal sightseeing itinerary and flocked to the tomb, crowding around the retaining wall that surrounded the pit in which the tomb entrance lay.
2014: Discovering Tutankhamun, at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, featured many of Burton's original photographs alongside records and drawings from the Griffith Institute; [32] 2017-2018: Photographing Tutankhamun , at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge , showed many of Harry Burton's photographs. [ 27 ]
King Tut’s iconic mask is 21 inches tall, inlaid with precious stones, and features a 5.5-pound golden beard as part of the larger 22.5-pound gold mask. That beard may have been an afterthought ...
A BBC documentary detailed new findings by researchers who performed a "virtual autopsy" on King Tut using more than 2,000 computer scans and genetic analysis of his family - which suggests his ...
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Items from the largely intact tomb of Yuya and Tjuyu (King Tut's great-grandparents; the parents of Tiye who was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III) are also included. Yuya and Tjuyu's tomb was one of the most celebrated historical finds in the Valley of the Kings until Howard Carter's discovery in 1922.
Houston rookie tight end Cade Stover had an emergency appendectomy Saturday night and will miss Sunday's game against the Miami Dolphins. The Texans announced his surgery Sunday morning, saying he ...