2. • Tut died more than 3300 years ago.
He was the last teen-aged ruler of
a powerful family that had ruled
Egyptian empire for centuries.
• Ruled for about nine years and then
died unexpectedly.
• His tomb was discovered and
investigated in 1922 by a British
archaeologist, Howard Carter.
• He was a British citizen and didn't
have the beliefs of the Egyptians
who never tried to go near Tut's
tomb because they had feared that
going near Tut's tomb was
disasterous as It could invite the
Pharaoh's curse !
• Anyway carter was not scared. He
decided to take Tut's body out.
4. • Later it was taken out again for CT scan to solve the mystery
of his death.The mummy was scanned after a thousand years to
find a cause of its untimely death but technology hasn’t been
able to give us a definite answer to Tut’s death.
• Tut underwent a CT scan that offered new clues on his life
and death. It is thought that he could have been murdered.
• Howard discovered the world's richest royal collection ever
found. He went to his afterlife with things such as board
games, food, wine, linen undergarments, etc. Artefacts of
gold of extreme brilliance could be found in his grave.
• It took months for Carter to record all the things that had
been found in his grave.
5.
6. • But taking Tut's body wasn't that easy. Carter and his
team broke the three gold coffins one after the other.
Finally they broke the innermost coffin and saw the
dried, hard body of Tut.
• It was really wonderful to see the dead body of a 3300
year old mummy and to know for sure that his name was
Tutankhamun.
• He then decided to take the body out of the coffins but
soon realized that that was not so easy because the body
had got hardened with the resins and separating the body
from the coffin was Impossible.
• But Carter could not think of leaving the body there. He
feared the thieves who could destroy the mummy for
stealing the valuable wealth inside, so Carter decided to
cut Tut's body into pieces.
7.
8. • Carter amputated Tut's hands,
legs and all the other joints.
You can call it a kind of a
21st century murder of a 1300
BC Pharaoh and the Murder was
committed by Howard Carter.
• Carter had no other option
because for him the mummy was
more important than the
treasures.
• Having taken the sliced pieces
of Tut, Carter rejoined them
into Tut again.Carter received
criticisms from everywhere for
killing an ancient mummy but
Carter went ahead with his
discovery.
9.
10.
11.
12. • After some years, probably
after Carter's death, a
doctor performed an Xray and
found out that one of Tut's
bones was missing from his
reassembled body. How did it
happen? No one knows! Years
passed and archaeologists
and scientists performed a
number of studies and
experiments.
• Today CT scan takes hundreds
of X-Rays and creates a
three dimensional image of
the body. Tut’s mummy was
put into a CT scanner on 5
Jan. 2005 to answer two
questions – How did he die?
and how old was he at the
time of death?
22. A.R. Williams developed a love for reading at a very
young age and in the fourth grade, when an
assignment to write their own works of fiction was
given, it occurred to him that he too could have the
ability to craft tales for others to enjoy.
During a membership in a book club, A.R. discovered
that there were books dedicated to teaching amateur
writers more about the craft of writing. He snatched
up a twin-pack written by Phyllis A. Whitney.
To improve his skills, A.R. Williams joined the Science
Fiction and Fantasy Online Writing Workshop when it
was still hosted by Del Rey. At this time A.R. was
writing more, but not submitting his work to the
markets. With the advancement of the internet and
the ability to find new markets from sites such as
Ralan's and Duotrope's Digest, A.R. entered the field
in a serious attempt to become a published author.
23. 1) Forensic
Reconstruction
2) Scudded across
3) casket grey
4) resurrection
5) Funerary Treasures
6) Circumvented
7) Eerie detail
1) Activity of building again
something damaged or to help
scientific test to solve a crime .
2) Moved quickly across
something .
3) A small grey box or grey sky.
4) A new beginning for
something which is old.
5) Collection of valuable things
used at a funeral.
6) Found a way for avoiding a
difficulty or a rule
7) Strange and frightening little
bits of facts
24. i. Ghost – like wicked evil spirits formed by
dust
ii. Bulging / swelling clouds
iii. The sky over the desert
iv. The grey sky hiding the stars in it
v. Extremely attractive man – made object
vi. Everlasting shine
vii. Treasures stored following rituals of
funeral
viii. Resins applied according to religious rites
ix. Aloofness of a scientist
x. Body made to appear to exist by
computer software
