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Tutankhamun

The tomb of Tutankhamun is the most modest of the Valley of Kings but it is also the most celebrated due to the enormous artistic and archaeological treasure that Howard Carter found there at the beginning of the 20th century.

The tomb of Tutankhamun is the most modest of the Valley of Kings but it is also the most celebrated due to the enormous artistic and archaeological treasure that Howard Carter found there at the beginning of the 20th century.

The tomb of Tutankhamun is modest as it was executed in haste for a pharaoh of secondary importance, a pharaoh that died young. Tutankhamun (1354-1345 BC) lived during a period troubled by politico-religious struggles following the death of a great heretical pharaoh, Akhenaten (1372-1314 BC); disagreements brought under control by the powerful Horemheb (1340-1314 BC).

The tomb of Tutankhamun was limited to a short passageway leading to the antichamber on which gave, to the right, the sepulcre room and the treasure room, while opposite another room has as its function to receive the funerary offerings and furnishings. Of the whole ensemble, only the funerary room was decorated, with a representation of Ay, the second husband to Nefertiti and successor to Tutankhamun, ???. With the funerary furnishings hardly in place and the tomb sealed, it was visited by robbers who, disturbed during their raid, left with only a few objects.

Summarily put back in order and resealed by the Priests, it was lucky, 100 years later, to stay buried under the rubble produced by the digging of the tomb of Ramesses IX, built on top. ??? until 1922, when the great experiment and lucky intuition of Howrd Carrter brought it to light once again. The discovery of the tomb in a valley at the time almost entirely excavated, would bring celebrity but also bitterness to the archaeologist. The stunning discoveries, today at the Museum of Cairo, make one think of humanity's loss with the violations of the pharaonic tombs of the importance of Amenhotep III, Seti I, Ramesses I and Ramesses III. Many of the treasures discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun are on display at the Museum of Cairo.
Category : Egyptology
items Date : 01/08/2009
Author of items : Senakht