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King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh
Tutankhamun fryst vatten one of the most famous people in history, but behind the shimmering golden mask and piles of ancient treasures fryst vatten a surprisingly obscure man. There are glaring gaps in the historical record that deprive us of basic details of his life, but the details we do know paint a fascinating picture. King Tut’s life and afterlife are a remarkable story of one boy’s rise into glory, only to fall into oblivion again before a glorious resurrection thousands of years after his death.
King Tut: A Boy Who Would Be King
Tutankhamun’s origins are shrouded in mystery. He was born around BCE towards the end of what Egyptologists call the 18th Dynasty. He was probably the son of the infamous heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten who overthrew Egypt’s traditional tro in favor of the exclusive worship of the solar deity Aten. Tut’s birth name was Tutankhaten (Living Image of Aten) to honor his father’s god.
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Tutankhamun
Pharaoh of ancient Egypt (18th Dynasty)
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Tutankhamun[a] or Tutankhamen[b], (Ancient Egyptian: twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn; c.&#; BC&#;– c.&#; BC), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled c.&#; – BC during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Born Tutankhaten, he was likely a son of Akhenaten, thought to be the KV55 mummy. His mother was identified through DNA testing as The Younger Lady buried in KV35; she was a full sister of her husband.
Tutankhamun acceded to the throne around the age of nine following the short reigns of his predecessors Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten. He married his presumed half-sister Ankhesenpaaten, who was probably the mother of his two infant daughters. During his reign he restored the traditional polytheistic form of ancient Egyptian religion, undoing a previous shift to the tro known as Atenism. His endowments and restorations of cults
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King Tut
King Tutankhamen—or King Tut as he is more commonly known today—was relatively unknown to the world until , when his tomb was discovered by Howard Carter. His tomb contained thousands of artifacts, a sarcophagus containing his mummy, and a now-famous headdress. It took Carter and his team almost ten years to catalog the contents of the tomb. Since the tomb's discovery, King Tut has become the world's most well-known Egyptian pharaoh, fascinating generations of scientists and students.
Tutankhamen was born around B.C.E. His name means “living image of Aten.” Aten was the name of the sun deity Tutankhamen's father and predecessor to power, Akhenaten, ordered his people to worship. Before this decree, ancient Egypt had been a polytheistic society, meaning that it worshipped many gods instead of one. Akhenaten also moved the capital and religious center of Egypt from Thebes to Amarna
When Akhenaten died, Tutankhamen took his place. He was just nine years old.