What Is Tutankhamun's Legacy

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Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled c. 1332–1323 BC) during the period of Egyptian history known as the New kingdom or sometimes the New Empire Period.He was the son of the powerful Akhenaten. His original name, Tutankhaten , means "Living Image of Aten", while Tutankhamun means "Living Image of Amun". In hieroglyphs (the language used by the ancient egyptians at that time).King Tutankhamun ruled Egypt as pharaoh for 10 years until his death at age 19, around 1324 B.C. Although his rule was notable for reversing the wild religious reforms of his father, Pharaoh Akhenaten. Tutankhamun’s legacy was largely abolished by his successors. He was barely known to the modern world until 1922, when British archaeologist Howard Carter chiseled through a doorway and entered the boy pharaoh’s tomb, which had remained sealed for more than 3,200 years. The tomb’s vast hoard of artifacts and treasure, intended to accompany the king into the afterlife, revealed an incredible amount about royal life in ancient Egypt, and quickly made King Tut the world’s most famous pharaoh.
During the time of his birth, Egypt was going through a a social and political upheaval. It was unstable.Akhenaten had forbidden the worship of many gods in favor of worshiping one. ‘Aten’ the sun disc.Historians differ on how …show more content…

Other experts, however, rejected the hypothesis of homozygous sickle cell disease based on survival beyond the age of 5 and the location of the osteonecrosis, which is characteristic of Freiberg-Kohler syndrome rather than sickle-cell disease.Research conducted in 2005 by archaeologists, radiologists, and geneticists, who performed CT scans on the mummy, found that he was not killed by a blow to the head, as previously thought.Tutankhamun may have been injured in a chariot accident on the

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