1. THE TOMB OF KING TUTANKHAMUN
(The Boy King)

2. THE TOMB OF KING TUTANKHAMUN
History:
New Kingdom Pharaoh
18th Dynasty
Became king at age 9
Died at age 18.
Only intact burial of an Egyptian Pharaoh
Tomb Location: Valley of The Kings

3. THE TOMB OF KING TUTANKHAMUN
Discovery of Tomb:
Howard Carter: British Archaeologist
Spent 7 years looking for tomb in Valley.
By trade an artist.
Got his start working on digs as an artist.

4. The Tomb Of King Tutankhamun
Howard Carter:
Previous work:
1893: Deir el Bahari: Temple of Hatshepsut
1900: Chief Inspector of Antiquities for Egypt
1905: Began work for Lord Carnarvon
: Tut’s tomb.

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Lord Carnarvon
Wealthy private collector
Financed archaeological digs
Valuable collection of Egyptian Artifacts
He financed Carter’s digs. Beginning in 1905.

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Valley of the Kings:
Location: Upper Egypt
Burial spot for New Kingdom Pharaohs.
Two areas: East Valley and West Valley
Most tombs in East Valley
Thutmose III, one of earliest tombs in Valley.
Tut’s tomb is adjacent to Rameses VI tomb

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Valley of the Kings:
Tut’s burial: KV62
Barren region
Stop tomb robbers?

8. THE TOMB OF KING TUTANKHAMUN
Small
Probably for someone of lesser rank
4 rooms and a passageway
4 doorways
Staircase leads to passageway

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The rooms:
Antechamber
Annex
Burial Chamber
Treasury

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Burial Chamber:
The only part of the tomb with wall paintings.
One depicts: Opening of Mouth Ceremony
Senses are restored to Tut.
Performed by Ay, his successor

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OPENING of the MOUTH CEREMONY Ay
Tut
Tut in burial garments

12. TUTS TOMB Burial Chamber:
Only room in the entire structure that is decorated.
Back wall painting

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Pictures
Burial Chamber

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Burial Chamber:
4 gilded shrines inside one another.
Stone sarcophagus: inside were 3 coffins
Innermost coffin: solid gold
Inside this coffin was Tut with golden mask.

15. TUTS TOMB Arrangement of Coffins: (1)First Coffin
It is made of Cypress wood overlaid with gold foil
(2)Second Coffin
This coffin of finer workmanship than the preceding, was also made of wood covered in gold foil
(3)Third Coffin
It is made of solid gold and weights kg.
(4)The Mummy
It was decorated with near 150 amulets, jewels and the superb golden mask inlaid with wonderful glass

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Outer Sarcophagus
Weight 1 ¼ tons

17. TUTS TOMB Burial Chamber:
Third Coffin: Solid gold, weighs 243 lbs and is 74 inches in length. This coffin contained the mummy of the young pharaoh, covered by the famous mask. It was placed within a second coffin, made of wood covered in gold foil, which in turn was set within the first, outermost, coffin, also made of wood covered in gold foil.

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Burial Chamber
Third Coffin:
Image of sun above coffin

19. TUTS TOMB Burial Chamber:
Burial Mask: Made of solid gold, placed directly upon the pharaoh's mummy. Function: protection.
Weight: 24 lbs.
On the forehead of the mask are a royal uraeus and a vulture's head:
symbols of the two deities of Lower and Upper Egypt: Wadjet and Nekhbet.

20. TUTS TOMB Burial Chamber Gold/Wood Shrines
Covered with thick gold foil, set on a wooden sledge
4 Shrines one inside the other

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Antechamber:
Contained: chariots, food, funeral couches, thrones, two black guardian figures.
This area was seen first by Carter.

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Antechamber

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Antechamber
Life sized statues: 2 stood guard by the sealed door to burial chamber
made of wood, painted with black resin and overlaid with gold in parts.
They depict the pharaoh

24. TUTS TOMB Antechamber Golden Throne: Scene from back of throne
Made of wood covered with sheet gold, and adorned with semiprecious stones and colored glass paste.

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Antechamber
Rams Head
Head of Tut:
On wood

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ANNEX

27. TUTS TOMB ANNEX Shabti Figures 413 shabtis was found
In both annex and treasury
About 12 in. in height

28. TUTS TOMB Treasury Statuette of goddess Selkis Made of gilded wood
one of the four protective deities of the outer canopy of the Canopic Shrine containing the viscera of the deceased pharaoh

29. TUTS TOMB Treasury Canopic Shrine of Tutankhamen. The goddess Isis
Within this a series of smaller shrines, of gilded wood and calcite.
Within the Canopic chest itself were four gold coffinettes, with the viscera of the pharaoh.
Close up of canopic jar lids

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The Treasury:
Adjacent to burial chamber.
Needs of afterlife:
Boats, gilded figures, canopic chest, protective figure of Anubis.

31. TUTS TOMB King Tut’s unwrapped Mummy: 5’ 4” tall
Died between age 17-19