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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 ...
The entry section of the Exhibition displays general information about Tutankhamun's life and death. A life-size model of Tutankhamun's mummy is displayed. The exhibitors claim that it took more than two years to recreate the mummy. X-ray pictures taken from the real mummy helped to make an exact copy.
The official opening expected to occur later in 2024 will feature the first exhibition of about 5,000 objects of King Tutankhamun's full tomb relocated from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the reconstructed (August 2021) Khufu ship, a solar barque, that was relocated to the GEM from the Giza Solar boat museum beside the Great Pyramid. [39]
Allan Tannenbaum/GettyNov. 4, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, and soon the world will be inundated with Tut mania: books, TV programs, museum ...
After a re-examination of the original 1920s discovery, experts now believe even more strongly that King Tut’s golden burial mask wasn’t originally intended for him at all and was likely ...
Howard Carter, the first person to walk inside Tutankhamun’s tomb with Carnarvon, died in 1939 after a long battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which was suspected to be caused by radiation poisoning.
Some clay seal impressions contain text, such as the partial word 'pa-aten,' [2] part of the birth name of Tutankhamun's wife, Ankhesenamun. [2] This inscription, the architectural style of the chamber, and the form of the coffins and jars all point to an Eighteenth Dynasty date, roughly contemporary with Tutankhamun , whose tomb is nearby.
The researchers behind the facial reconstruction said the result was ‘amazingly close’ to a previous one