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... Therefore, great care was taken into making each tomb. One of the most famous tombs was that of King Page 2 Tutankhamen. He was a young king who died at a very early age of 18. King Tutankhamen died in 1323 B. ... His father was Akhenaten, the heretic king of the eighteenth dynasty. ... But the king’s body was so badly preserved that it is hard to tell where the hole came from. King Tut’s tomb was discovered by Howard Carter, a British archeologist. He has searched for Tutankhamen’s burial chamber for sixteen years before it was finally discovered in the Valley of the Kings in Thebes (3,2). The inside of the tomb was very astonishing. ... Unfortunately, King Tut’s tomb had been robbed twice, and the oils were no longer in it. ... The next room was where the shrine of the king was. ... The tomb itself was very impressive. ... When King Tut was found, he was discovered to have been wrapped with various jewelry, bracelets and necklaces were wrapped in the tomb, and served as amulets to protect the king from evil in life and afterlife (5). The jewelry and art found in King Tut’s tomb was different in that Page 3 it showed scenes that the Egyptians believed to have happened after death. |
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