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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 ...
KV62's burial chamber is painted with figures on a yellow background. The north wall shows Ay performing the Opening of the Mouth ritual upon Tutankhamun's mummy, thus legitimising himself as the king's heir, and then Tutankhamun greeting the goddess Nut and the god Osiris in the afterlife. The east wall portrays Tutankhamun's funeral ...
The location of his hastily constructed tomb was forgotten within 200 years, Britannica said. ... Egypt’s antiquities chief supervises the 2007 removal of the mummy of King Tutankhamun from his ...
The unguents had undergone a chemical reaction that had carbonised the linen mummy wrappings, and even some of the tissues of the mummy itself, rendering Tutankhamun's flesh extremely fragile. [ 174 ] [ 175 ] The excavators first tried to melt the resin by taking the coffins out of the tomb to be heated by the sun, but this failed. [ 176 ]
How Howard Carter's amazing discovery of King Tut's tomb led to tales of a curse and ignited interest in the mummy's ancient mystery.
This 1922 aerial view shows Howard Carter's archaeological excavations of the tombs of the pharaohs Ramesses VI and Tutankhamen (better known as King Tut), Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt.
Mummies 317a and 317b are the remains of two infant daughters of Tutankhamun, a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.Their mother, who has been tentatively identified through DNA testing as the mummy KV21A, is presumed to be Ankhesenamun, his only known wife. 317a was born prematurely at 5–6 months' gestation, and 317b was born at or near full term.
The discovery is the first of its kind since King Tutankhamun's tomb was found in 1922, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said. ... took place shortly after King Thutmose II’s death ...