About King Tutankhamen, composed from many existing power-point presentation available and researched a bit at my own. Size: 1.45 MB Slide: 13

1. PHARAOH
TUTANKHAMEN

2. INTRODUCTION
 King Tutankhamen is one
of the most famous
pharaohs ever to reign.
 King Tut is famous for his
tomb and his unknowing
mysterious death King
Tut had.
 King Tut reigned for
almost 9 years.

3. The Early Life of
Tutankhamun
o Tutankhamun’s given
name was Tutankhaten
which meant “Living
image of Aten”
o His parent are most likely
to be King Akhenaten and
Nefertiti. He spent his
childhood in Egypt's new
capital, Armana
Computer Reconstruction

4. LIFE AS PHARAOH
 Akhenaten died when Tut was only
eight or nine years old.
 One of the first actions took by
King Tut was to reestablish the old
ways of Amun religion.
 He restored the orthodox belief in
the pantheon of the gods.
 King Tut had married his half sister,
Ankhesenamun, who’s parent were
Akhenaten and Nefertiti.

5. Child King Tut (center) plays marbles with other royal children

6. KING TUT’S DEATH
I. Many historians couldn’t figure
out what caused King Tut’s
death.
II. In 1986, Ronald Harrison took a
x-ray of the head.
III. He found that some fragments of
bone were in his skull.
IV. They found that the position of
impact was not an area which
could have been damaged
accidentally.
V. This gave a clue that there could
have been an injury including his
head.

7. KING TUT’S DEATH CONTINUED…
 The idea of King Tut being murdered was strongly insisted by Bob Brier
 He believed that Ay (a high ranking official) had killed King Tut
 Ay was given the throne after King Tut’s death which would of given him
motive to get rid of Tut.
 Ankhesenamun, was forced to marry Ay after King Tut passed away.
 Horemhab was also a suspect (He was also a high ranking official that
helpful Tut with his decision
 Later, after Ay died he got the throne and restored life back to the old
traditonal ways . That might have give him the motive to kill Tut
 Evidences show it can be a case of murder, but actual scene nobody
knows

8. DISCOVERY
 King Tut’s tomb was found in The
Valley of The Kings on November 4th,
1922
 It was discovered by Howard Carter
and Lord Carnarvon
 The tomb found to be damaged, it
might be because of robbery
 There are many valuables left
untouched that are now in the Cairo
Museum for all to view.
 The digging for the tomb began on
Nov 1st 1921
 The dig was intended to start on Nov
1st, 1914 but delayed due to the World
War 1

9. DISCOVERER OF KING TUT
Lord Carnarvon Howard Carter

10. DISCOVERY CONTINUED
 The dig resumed in1921
 They initially started digging near
Ramsies VI’s tomb hoping that King
Tutankhamen was buried near him
 While near Ramsies VI’s tomb the
workers were told to break the old
workmen’s hut under which they
revealed staircase
 The step were cleared and down that
stairs King Tut lied.
Mannequin of
Tutankhamun

11. ROBBERY
 Robbers broke into King Tut’s
tomb soon after he was buried
 They later caught and the tomb
was again organised and sealed
 Later for more protection,
workmen built a hut over the
King’s tomb
 After a flooding caused the tomb
to be hidden for thousands of
years

12. THE CURSE OF MUMMY
 The curse was that “If anyone who disturbs the King will be
cursed by the wrath of the mummy”
 Lord Carnarvon who discovered the tomb died shortly after the
discovery
 He died from a bite of a mosquito which aggravated by shaving. It
then became infected and he was soon running a temperature.
However , he suffered from a contracted pneumonia, which
caused him death.
 Howard Carter died of lymphoma, at the age of 64. His natural
death so long after the opening of the tomb, is the piece of
evidence most commonly put forward by sceptics to refute the
idea of a “Curse of the Pharaoh”
 But Howard Carter faced a bad life as he damaged the King’s
Mummy badly and lost it value a bit.

13. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter
www.touregypt.net/featurestories/carnarvon.htm
 http://www.biography.com/people/king-tut-9512446
www.kingtutone.com/tutankhamun