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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 ...
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 ante-chamber contains replicas of furniture and Tutankhamun's personal items he had been buried with.
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 procession, a type of image that is common in private New Kingdom tombs but not ...
A scene from 1932’s The Mummy, featuring (from left to right) Bramwell Fletcher, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, and Arthur Byron. LMPC - Getty Images
King Tutankhamen’s tomb today. Over the years, King Tutankhamen’s tomb, stone sarcophagus with three nesting coffins, and mummified body have been carefully preserved, photos show.
This picture taken on Nov. 6, 2022, shows a view of the gold burial mask of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom Pharaoh Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum in the center of Egypt's capital ...
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.
When archaeologist Howard Carter and colleagues discovered King Tut's tomb, he reported seeing "wonderful things." Here are 30 lavish findings from the ancient Egyptian burial.