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Ankhesenamun (ˁnḫ-s-n-imn, "Her Life Is of Amun"; c. 1348 [1] or c. 1342 – after 1322 BC [2]) was a queen who lived during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.Born Ankhesenpaaten (ˁnḫ.s-n-pꜣ-itn, "she lives for the Aten"), [3] she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti.
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.
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 ...
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.
Archaeologists working in Egypt's Valley of the Kings may have found the tomb of King Tutankhamun's wife, reports LiveScience.. Though only 10 years old when ascended to power, Tutankhamun took ...
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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.
See how experts restored King Tut's mask: Dr. Yasmin El Shazley with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo notes the feminine-looking faces on the canopic jars, where the deceased's organs were placed, ...