Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun, one of the pharaohs of the eighteenth Egyptian family in the history of ancient Egypt, was the Pharaoh of Egypt from 1334 to 1325 BC. In the era of the modern state.

Tutankhamun, one of the pharaohs of the eighteenth Egyptian family in the history of ancient Egypt, was the Pharaoh of Egypt from 1334 to 1325 BC. In the era of the modern state. Tutankhamun is one of the most famous of the Pharaohs for reasons not related to the achievements he has achieved or wars he won, as is the case with many Pharaohs; but for other reasons that are historically important, most notably the discovery of his tomb and his treasures completely without any damage. The mystery surrounding the circumstances of his death as many considered the death of Pharaoh at a very young age is abnormal, especially with the effects of fractures in the bones of the thigh and skull, and the marriage of his minister to his widow after his death and the inauguration of Pharaoh himself. All these mysterious events,

The heavy use of the myth of the curse of the Pharaohs associated with the tomb of Tutankhamun used in movies and video games has made Tutankhamun the most famous puzzles for puzzles and questions that remain unanswered, considered by some of the oldest assassinations in the history of humanity. The young Tutankhamun died and was buried in his tomb - Cemetery 62 - in the Valley of the Kings.

Tutankhamun was nine when Pharaoh of Egypt and his name in ancient Egyptian meant "the living image of the god Amun", the great ancient Egyptian goddess. Tutankhamun lived in a transitional period in the history of ancient Egypt, where he came after Akhenaten, who tried to unite the gods of ancient Egypt in the form of a single god Sunday. During his reign he returned to the worship of the various gods of ancient Egypt. His tomb was discovered in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter. The discovery has caused widespread media uproar in the world.

Tutankhamun, son of King Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV). In April 2010, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced that, based on DNA tests, Tutankhamun was the son of King Akhenaten.

Tutankhamun became the king of Egypt as a child after the death of his brother Smenkh Ka-Ra, and he married Ankh Amun.

Tutankhamun died under mysterious and unknown circumstances, after which his former minister Ai, who married Tutankhamun's widow, was married.

During the reign of Tutankhamun, a revolt from Tell el-Amarna began against the movement of the former pharaoh Akhenaten, who moved the capital from Thebes to his new capital, Aten's sister in Minya, and attempted to unite the many gods of ancient Egypt, including the god Amon in the form of the one god Aten. In 1331 BC, in the third year of the reign of Tutankhamun, who was 11 years old and under the influence of the minister Ay lifted the ban on the worship of the gods.

There is a widespread belief that the death of Tutankhamun was not due to pathological reasons, but may have been the result of an assassination attempted by Minister Khirkhgru Ra Ay. On the seal of a pharaonic named Ay and Ankh Amun, widow of Tutankhamun and also a letter sent by Ankh Amun, widow of Tutankhamun, to the king of the Hittites asking him to send one of his sons for the purpose of marriage with her after the death of her husband

The king of the Hittites sent one of his sons to marry the widow of Tutankhamun, but he died before he entered the land of Egypt. There he is believed to have been assassinated at the behest of Minister Khakhrukh-Ra, who apparently planned to seize the throne of Egypt. King of the Hittites but these hypotheses and there is no conclusive evidence to prove all these theories.

It is worth mentioning that the historical evidence indicates the existence of two ministers of Tutankhamun, one of which was mentioned and the other was named Horemheb. Evidence of the reign of Tutankhamun and Minister Aye confirms to some the conspiracy theory and the fact that Tutankhamun's death from malaria was widespread in the south.

The so-called Valley of the Kings, located on the west bank of the Nile near the Thebes and for 450 years during the reign of the modern state from the history of the ancient Egyptians, which lasted from 1539 to 1075 BC served as a cemetery for the pharaohs of this period where there is in this rocky valley, which has an area of ​​approximately 20,000 27 royal tombs belonging to three families namely the 18th Egyptian family, the 19th Egyptian family and the 20th Egyptian family were discovered to this day.

The valley is believed to contain at least 30 other graves not yet discovered. The tombs discovered in the Valley of the Kings so far, according to the chronological order of the rule of the Pharaohs date back to Thutmose I and Amenhoth II and Tutankhamun and Horemheb of the Egyptian family XVIII and Ramses I and Seti I and Ramesses II and Amenmesses and Seti II and Sabtah They are from the nineteenth Egyptian family and six Nakhti and Ramesses III and Ramses IV Ramesses the fifth and Ramesses the ninth are of the twenty Egyptian family. Other graves of unknown pharaohs are still under way.

The construction of the tomb of the Pharaoh usually began days after his inauguration of Pharaohs on Egypt. The construction took mostly tens of years. Mostly, the mazes leading to the tomb of the ancient pharaoh were clogged.

When the archaeologist and specialist in the history of ancient Egypt, Howard Carter, was digging at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the tomb of Ramses VI in the Valley of the Kings, he noticed a large cellar and continued careful excavation until he entered the room that includes the tomb of Tutankhamun and was on the walls of the room containing the shrine. The pictures of the story of the departure of Tutankhamun to the world of the dead The scene was very impressive to the world Howard Carter, who was looking at the room through a hole with a candle and said that his assistant asked him "Can you see anything?" Carter replied, "Yes, I see great things."

On February 16, 1923, Howard Carter (1874-1939) was the first man in more than 3,000 years to set foot on the floor of the chamber containing the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun. Carter noticed the presence of a wooden box with gold inlaid inscriptions in the center of the room and when he lifted the box he noticed that the box was covering a second box decorated with gold inlaid inscriptions and when he raised the second box he noticed that the second box was covering a third box inlaid with gold and when he lifted the third box arrived to the stone sarcophagus Covered with a thick layer of stone carved in the form of a statue of Tutankhamun and when lifting this stone cover Carter arrived to the main golden sarcophagus, which was in the form of a statue of Tutankhamun and this golden coffin covers two other gold coffins in the form of statues of the young pharaoh.

Howard had difficulty raising the third golden shroud, which covered Tutankhamun's mummy from the mummy. He was wrapped in layers of silk and after removing the shroud made of cloth found the mummy of Tutankhamun full of decoration of necklaces, rings, crown and sticks were all of pure gold, to remove these artifacts forced the excavation team to separate the skull and the main bones from its joints and after removing the jewelry To the skeleton of the mummy and put it in a wooden coffin.