Discovering Tut -The saga continues is a very interesting text dealing with the lingering mysteries of the boy pharoah - Tutankhamun. His sudden death as a teenager and discovery of his tomb 3300 after his burial were great excitement. The treasure he was buried with is still of interest to many.

1. Discovering Tut :
The saga continues
by A R williams
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2. Presentation
By
Mrs S Akilandeswari
PGT English
DAV Public School
Sreshtha Vihar
Delhi Akila’s English Class

3. •The Burial Chamber and Treasure
•The Gold Mask
•The Antechamber
•Click here for mummification process (storyboard)
•click this for the mummification process (youtube)
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4. He was just a teenager when he died. The last
heir of a powerful family that had ruled Egypt
and its empire for centuries, he was laid to
rest laden with gold and eventually
forgotten. Since the discovery of his tomb in
1922, the modern world has speculated
about what happened to him, with murder
being the most extreme possibility. Now,
leaving his tomb for the first time in almost 80
years, Tut has undergone a CT scan that
offers new clues about his life and death —
and provides precise data for an accurate
forensic reconstruction of the boyish pharaoh.
Lingering questions
1. Who was he?
2. Why was he laid to
rest laden with gold
and then forgotten?
3. How did he die?
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5. All afternoon the usual line of tourists from around
the world had descended into the cramped, rock-cut
tomb some 26 feet underground to pay their
respects. They gazed at the murals on the walls of
the burial chamber and peered at Tut’s gilded face,
the most striking feature of his mummy-shaped
outer coffin lid. Some visitors read from guidebooks
in a whisper. Others stood silently, perhaps
pondering Tut’s untimely death in his late teens, or
wondering with a shiver if the pharaoh’s curse —
death or misfortune falling upon those who disturbed
him — was really true.
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6. The Three Nested coffins
Watch how tut's coffins were nested
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7. The outer coffin
Details of the head and hands of the middle coffin
Tut's innermost coffin
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8. Howard Carter was a British
archaeologist and Egyptologist who
became world-famous after discovering
the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty
Pharaoh, Tutankhamun, in November
1922.
24 slides of discovering Tut
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9. The Egyptians had elaborate beliefs about
death and the afterlife. They believed that
humans possessed a ka, or life-force, which
left the body at the point of death. In life, the
ka received its sustenance from food and
drink, so it was believed that, to endure after
death, the ka must continue to receive
offerings of food, whose spiritual essence it
could still consume
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10. The stars of Orion were
associated with Osiris, the god
of rebirth and afterlife by the
ancient Egyptians.
Osiris is the God of fertility,
agriculture, the afterlife. the
dead, resurrection, life, and
vegetation in ancient Egypt
religion.
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