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The tomb of Tutankhamun, also known by its tomb number, KV62, is the burial place of Tutankhamun (reigned c. 1332–1323 BC), a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb consists of four chambers and an entrance staircase and corridor.
Ay, with a leopard skin, performing the opening of the mouth for Tutankhamun.Wall painting from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV 62), 18th Dynasty (c. 1325 BCE). The ancient Egyptians held the belief that to reach the afterlife, one must pass through a series of arduous trials in the duat, which involve evading perilous creatures and traps.
Howard Carter (squatting), Arthur Callender and an Egyptian workman, looking into the opened shrines enclosing Tutankhamun's sarcophagus in 1924. 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.
This is the dramatic opening scene of 1932’s The ... Lord Carnarvon received a license to dig at a site “where it was believed the tomb of King Tutankhamun rested,” and hired Carter for the ...
Egypt’s antiquities chief supervises the 2007 removal of the mummy of King Tutankhamun from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.
A century after the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered, revealing the mummified boy-king buried more than 3,000 years ago, it has re-opened, brighter and safer thanks to painstaking work to repair ...
The explicit depiction of a succeeding king conducting the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony of another is unique; the depictions are usually more generic. [14] Ay was buried in the tomb intended for Tutankhamun in the West Valley of the Kings , and Tutankhamun was interred in Ay's intended tomb in the East Valley of the Kings .
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 ...