Discovering tut the saga continues class 11th

1. Discovering
tut
The saga
continues...

2. The historical records of ancient Egypt begin
with Egypt as a unified state, which occurred
sometime around 3150 BC. According to
Egyptian tradition, Menes, thought to have
unified Upper and Lower Egypt, was the first
king. Ancient Egypt can be thought of as an
oasis in the desert of northeastern Africa,
dependent on the annual inundation of
the Nile River to support
its agricultural population.

3. Map of ancient Egypt, showing major cities and sites of the Dynastic period (c.
3150 BC to 30 BC

5. Tutankhamen was born around 1341 B.C.E. His
name means “living image of Aten.” King
Tutankhamen—or King Tut as he is more
commonly known today after his death he was
mummified, according to tradition, and buried in
a tomb filled with artwork, jewelry, and treasures.
He was relatively unknown to the world until 1922,
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. ..

6. Summary
•* King Tut was the last heir of
powerful family who ruled the
Egyptian empire for many years
* King Tut was known as
Tutankhaten but soon he changed his
name to Tutankhamun.
* He became king at the age of 11 and
ruled upto his death when he was just
a teenager.

7. People of Egypt Believed in after life.
The king was burried along with
reiches like precious stone, jweles,
etc in order to fulfil the needs in his
life after death, it also protects the
body after mummifying. King Tut was
mummified the same. On Jan 5, 2005
when king Tut’s mummy was carried
from valley of king for the purpose of
CT scan. When the anatomy proffesor
X-rayed he found his breast bone and
front ribs were missing.

8. The archaeologist-ZAHI HAWASS, who
was secretary general of Egypt supreme
council of Antiquities blamed Hord Cater
(British Archeologist) blamed HORWARD
CARTER for the bad condition of king
Tut’s mummy. Howard Cater was a British
Archeologist who discovered king Tut’s
mummy in 1922 after years of futile
searching. The mummy was covered with
richest royal collection of the pharaohs
legend along with gold's and lavished with
precious collars, inlaid necklaces and
bracelets, rings, amulets, etc all made up

9. In order to save king Tut’s mummy from
thieves he decided to take off the mummy
from the coffin. But he was unable to do so
beacause the mummy was stuck to the coffin
with resins which cemented king Tut to thr
bottom of his gold coffin. He try to loosen
thr resins as he set the mummy outside in
blazing sunshine that heated it to 149degree
fahrenhiet but nothing happened. With no
way left, he cut the mummy to free from his
coffin.