The young king Tutankhamun was previously regarded as an inconsequential ruler of the 18th dynasty in the new kingdom of Ancient Egypt until the discovery of his tomb, which sparked a worldwide fascination with the life and death of this previously obscure figure. His nearly fully intact tomb was discovered by Howard Carter and his archaeological team in 1922. This tomb generated countless questions and ideas about the life and death of Tutankhamun (Tut). The wall paintings and the artefacts found in the tomb, as well as the pharaoh’s body itself allowed numerous theories to be developed as to how King Tut led his life. However, through historical and scientific research, many of the ideas conveyed by the tomb were proven to be false.
ANCIENT HISTORY SPEECH- TUTANKHAMUN IN POPULAR CULTURE Tutankhamun became Pharaoh at the age of 9 during the 18th dynasty, He ruled over Ancient Egypt until his sudden death at the age of 18. The ancient Egyptians had done what they could to equip the pharaoh for a safe journey into the afterlife. After the discovery of Tutankhamun’s almost untouched tomb by Howard carter in 1922, the boy king would finally meet his real afterlife, though a rather different one than the ancient Egyptians had imagined. The discovery of the tomb made Tutankhamun one of Egypt’s most well-known rulers. Jon Manchip White writes, “the Pharaoh who in life was one of the least esteemed of Egypt’s Pharaohs has become in death the most renowned” The discoveries in the tomb were well-known news in the 1920s.
Nevertheless, a king is born, same time his burial plan was as a massive project. However, how it is relating with moon landing you are going to see below with Ancient Secrets of Kings Pharos and Ancient Secrets of Kings Review. The Sea of Tranquility and Pyramids of Egypt The Egyptian civilization has left many truths to the future generation. Thanks to the Ancient Secrets of Kings. Since, what we follow now with modern day techniques is erstwhile base.
The Amduat The Amduat also called the ‘The Book of the Secret Chamber’ is an ancient Egyptian funerary text that was used in the tombs of pharaohs or favored nobility. The Amduat’s literal meaning is “that which is in the afterworld”. The Amduat is an illustrated funerary text that was intended as a guidebook of sorts to the afterlife for pharaohs and was a long tradition in Egyptian burials. It was not until the 21st Dynasty that the text was used in tombs other than pharaohs or nobility. The Amduat’s textual, iconographic, and symbolic content are an intrinsic part of Egyptian art history.
The exhibition manly deals with the 18th, 19th, 20th dynasties of ancient Egypt; or simply called the New Kingdom. The exhibit deals with the mummification of King Tutankhamun and his incredible tomb. This embodies ancient Egyptian culture’s idea of immortality. The story of Isis and Osiris led Egyptians to the practice of mummification. The idea of mummification is that in order for one to come back to life after death, their body has to be preserved.
Akhenaten was a king who left an ever lasting impression in history; his revolutionary ideas in religion and art broke conventions of many years of Egyptian tradition. His devotion to the single god Aten is considered by many critics as the first evidence of monotheism in the ancient world. Akhenaten was a revolutionary and made many changes. One of the most visible changes was in Amarna in the manner in which the human form is depicted, particularly in the proportions and the extreme physical features of the king himself. In sculptures, paintings and reliefs, Akhenaten is shown as having a slender neck, a long face with a sharp chin, narrow, almond-shaped eyes, full lips, high cheek bones, projecting lower jaw, long arms and fingers, swollen stomach, feminine buttocks, wide hips, heavy thighs, enlarged breasts and spindly calves.
The previous king, Akhenaten, worshiped the Atenist religion but when Tutankhamun took the throne he returned to the old religion of Amunism. Evidence of Tutankhamun’s belief in Amunism was found through a number of scarab beetles found in the tomb and near the body. The scarab beetle represented the sun god Re and his travel across the sky during the day, his ‘death’ in the evening and then his rebirth as the sun the next day. The scarab beetle is represented because of the way it dragged it’s ball of dung out of the hot sand, reminded the Egyptians of the sun’s ‘rebirth’ period. Throughout Tutankhamun’s tomb we find many artefacts that suggest that Tutankhamun greatly believed in Osiris, the King of the Underworld.
The picture in full is represented realistically and the colouring is beautifully detailed. The chair and its exquisite details promote the relationship of the royal couple. From this ornament, archaeologists were able to retrieve a lot of information about what the life of Tutankhamun was like, who he was and who his subjects believed he was, the position he occupied and what his expectations were concerning heaven, earth and the afterlife. The throne follows the Amarna artistic tradition developed under Akhenaten, a Pharaoh that tried to persuade the nation to worship one god, the sun disc Aten. Representing Aten is a solar disc displayed at the top and centre of the seat with life giving rays extending as arms and hands towards Tutankhamun and his Queen.
The ancient Egyptians believed firmly in the after-life and had complete faith in their gods and beliefs. The New Kingdom Egyptians believe in the cycle of life, death and rebirth, patterns that were apparent in nature. The study of the archaeological remains of Deir El-Medina (home to the artisans who built temples and tombs for pharaohs of the New Kingdom) and the Valley of the Kings (the home of tombs for kings and nobles of the New Kingdom) reveals the significance of religion to the ancient Egyptians. The Egyptians’ religious beliefs and practices were many. There were two gods that influenced their ideals on rebirth and resurrection.
There is one particular theory that is of interest from this time, and through research into the background and evidence for this theory hopefully some conclusion’s can be drawn. The theory itself is that; Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s famous funerary mask was not originally his but was his stepmother Nefertiti’s and was stolen from her tomb, then adapted for the boy king.