Background of King Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun, originally named Tutankhaten, was a king of Egypt. He ruled Egypt from 1333 B.C to 1323 B.C after the death of his father in law, the great King Akhenaton and his coronet.
He was married to Akhenaton’s third daughter, so as to solidify his claim to the throne. As he was still young at his accession, Ay, who was related to the royal and Horemheb, the general of the armies became the chief advisers who restored the traditional religion and art style after the ‘Amarna revolution’ led by Akhenaton. Tutankhamun issued a decree restoring the temples, images, personnel and privileges of the old gods. He died at his age of 18. Ay became the king after his death, because Tutankhamun had no surviving children. It was believed that Ay married his widow after his succession.
What’s special
Although Tutankhamun’s tomb was a small one, but it was also an intact one with all its treasures remain untouched.His tomb was found by Howard Carter on 26 November, 1922 in the Valley of the Kings.
Inside his tomb, the king’s poorly preserved mummy lay inside a nest of three golden cases. The mummy was wearing a superbly crafted mask made from solid gold.
The king's mummy mask was made of solid gold inlaid with colourful glass and stones, in- cluding dark blue lapis lazuli. It weighed over 10.2 kg. The pharoah is wearing a nemes headdress, and a vulture and a cobra sit on his brow.