It's a story about the great king Tutankhamun who died when he was just a teenager. This PPT tells you about the life, history, family and curses by him. Expecting You would enjoy this one.

1. Discovering Tut :
The Saga Continues
A. R. Williams

2. The Mummy of King Tut
As the mummy of King Tut was glided for
performing a CT scan, angry winds stirred and
dark clouds covered the stars. His scan was
being done to unearth the mysteries that had
surrounded his death.
Tourists had lined to pay their respects to the
‘mummy’ of the famous Egyptian king
Tutankhamun and made speculations about
his untimely death.

3. Tut’s Life
• Reign : Given his age, the king probably
had very powerful advisers, presumably
including General Horemheb and the
Vizier A.Y.Horemheb records that the
king appointed him "lord of the land" as
hereditary prince to maintain law. He
also noted his ability to calm the young
king when his temper flared.
• Domestic policy :In his third reignal year,
Tutankhamun reversed several changes
made during his father's reign. He ended
the worship of the god Aten and restored
the god Amun to supremacy. The ban on
the cult of Amun was lifted and
traditional privileges were restored to its
priesthood. The capital was moved back
to Thebes and the city of Akhetaten
abandoned.
• This is when he changed his name to
Tutankhamun, "Living image of Amun",
reinforcing the restoration of Amun.

4. • As part of his restoration, the king
initiated building projects, in particular
at Thebes and Karnak where he
dedicated a temple to Amun.
• Many monuments were erected, and
an inscription on his tomb door
declares the king had "spent his life in
fashioning the images of the gods".
The traditional festivals were now
celebrated again, including those
related to
the Apis Bull Horemakhet, and Opet
.His restoration stela says:
“The temples of the gods and
goddesses ... were in ruins. Their
shrines were deserted and overgrown.
Their sanctuaries were as non-existent
and their
courts were used as roads ... the gods
turned their backs upon this land
... If anyone made a prayer to a god
for advice he would never respond.”

5. Burial treasures of Tut
• The treasures of Tutankhamun have been
marveled at since their discovery by Howard
Carter on November 4, 1922. It was the first, and
to this day the only, royal tomb in the history of
Egyptology to be found practically untouched,
even though in ancient times it had been the
object of no less than two attempts at
robbery. The emptying of Tutankhamun's tomb
lasted several years and made possible the
recovery of about 3500 articles, confirming the
tomb as the most exceptional archeological
discovery ever made in Egypt.
• Tutankhamun’s second innermost coffin, also
referred to as the intermediate coffin is made of
gilded, laminated wood with inlays of
polychrome glass pastes.
• Tutankhamun's third coffin is made of solid,
hammered gold and weighs about 450 pounds.
The royal mummy of Tutankhamun was found
inside this coffin

6. • Tutankhamun's famous gold funerary mask rested directly
on the pharaoh's mummy inside the third coffin. The
pharaoh wears the classic names headdress striped with
transversal bands of glass paste imitating lapis lazuli and is
adorned with a wide collar composed of streaks of
semiprecious stones and colored glasses. The eyes are
made of quartz and obsidian. As on the coffins, the lapis-
lazuli outline of the eyes reproduces the distinctive kohl
eye make-up originally applied to protect against the sun's
glare but increasingly employed for its beautifying effect.
• The foremost and furthermost gilded wood statuettes
portray Tutankhamun hunting hippopotamus with a
harpoon from a boat made of papyrus.
• One of the two calcite lamps found in Tutankhamun's
burial chamber. The cup takes the form of an open lotus
flower and is flanked on both sides by rich, openwork
decoration in which the god Heh is depicted kneeling on a
number of papyrus plants with his arms raised.
• Three models of luxury ships (left) were found in
Tutankhamun's tomb. The baldachins at the bow and stern
are decorated with symbols of the sphinx and the bull.
Thirty-two model boats were placed in the tomb for
Tutankhamun's use in the afterworld

7. The Valley of Kings
The ancient cemetery of the
great king Tutankhamun

8. • A cobra killed Howard Carter's pet canary after the
discovery of King Tut's tomb.
• Lord Carnarvon, the person who funded the dig of King
Tut’s Tomb, died shortly after the discovery, due to a
mosquito bite which turned into an infection. At that exact
moment the lights in Cairo mysteriously went out.
• Lord Carnarvon's dog howled and dropped dead at two in
the morning when Carnarvon died.
• What is interesting is that Howard Carter lived a decade
after this major discovery.

9. • In 1923, another man involved in the opening of the tomb,
George Jay Gould, died as a result of a fever followed by
Carnarvon's half-brother Aubrey Herbert in 1923; Egyptologist
H.E. Evelyn-White; radiologist Sir Archibad Douglas-Reid;
Howard Carter's assistant Richard Bethel; his father Lord
Westbury; Egyptologist A.C. Mace; Egyptologist James Breasted
in 1935; and finally Howard Carter in March of 1939.
• Although some believe that the deaths may just be coincidental,
many believe that the deaths were a result of the mummy's curse.
• It is believed several of the deaths could be linked to a released
mold that had been trapped in the tomb and released.
• New findings are showing that bacteria on the wall of the
tomb might have been the cause of the curse. The bacteria
would release spores into the air allowing it to be breathed.
This in turn caused people who came into contact with
these spores to become ill.

10. Tut’s family history
Amenhotep III (Tut’s father or grandfather) ruled for almost
four decades during the 18th dynasty golden age. He was
succeeded by his son Amenhotep IV who pioneered one of
the odd periods in the history of ancient Egypt. He made
some drastic and unpleasant changes. He promoted the
worship of the Aten, the Sun disk, and changed his name to
Akhenaten. He moved the religious capital to the new city of
Akhetaten. He made some drastic unpleasant changes. He
destroyed the images and temples of Amun, a major god.
After his demise, a ruler named Smenkhkare reigned for a
brief time. Finally, Tutankhaten(the name was later changed
to Tutankhamun) took the throne and restored the old
order destroyed by his predecessors. He reigned for about
nine years.

11. The role of Science & Technology
in the discovery of Tut
• Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely
forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg
exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.
• The findings were from two years of DNA testing and CT scans on 16 mummies,
including those of Tutankhamun and his family, the team that carried out the study
said in an article to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
• It also established the clearest yet family tree for Tut. The study said his father was
most likely Akhenaten, the pharaoh who tried to revolutionize ancient Egyptian
religion to worship one god — while his mother was a still unidentified sister of
Akhenaten.
• Tut, who became pharaoh at the age of 10 in 1333 B.C., ruled for just nine years at a
pivotal time in Egypt’s history. While a comparatively minor king, the 1922 discovery
of his tomb filled with stunning artifacts, including the famed golden funeral mask,
made him known the world over.
• Speculation had long swirled over why the boy king died at such a young age. A hole
in his skull long fueled speculation he was murdered, until an X-ray scan in 2005 ruled
that out, finding that the hole was likely from the mummification process. The scan
also uncovered the broken leg.

12. The CT scan
In the year 2005, (more than 3,300 years after his death), King Tut’s mummy became one
of the first mummies to undergo a CT scan-“in death, as in life, moving regally ahead of
his countrymen.” The CT scan was led by Zahi Hawass and done with a portable CT
machine. The scan came up with new clues about his life and death. It provided precise
data for an accurate forensic reconstruction of King Tut. Due to sand in the cooler fan of
the CT machine, they had to use two plastic fans to complete the scanning process.
Tut’s body was examined over a computer screen with the help of the CT scan. It showed
a grey head, neck vertebrae, a hand, several images of the rib cage and a transection of the
skull. After collecting the data for scan, the Pharaoh is sent back to the place he belonged,
i.e. his coffin. It was a relief for Zahi Hawass as “nothing had gone seriously wrong” with
the mummy.
After their observations, when they left, the wind had stopped and the surrounding came
to a deathly silence. In the sky, just above the entrance to Tut's tomb stood Orion, the
constellation, also called by the Egyptians as the soul of Osiris, the God of afterlife,
watching over the boy king.

15. THE MYSTERY
STILL
CONTINUES…
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