The Story of Tutankhamun: Patricia Cleveland-Peck

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A genetic study, published in 2020, revealed Tutankhamun had the haplogroups YDNA R1b, which originated in western Asia and which today makes up 50–60% of the genetic pool of modern Europeans, and mtDNA K, which originated in the Near East. He shares this Y-haplogroup with his father, the KV55 mummy (Akhenaten), and grandfather, Amenhotep III, and his mtDNA haplogroup with his mother, The Younger Lady, his grandmother, Tiye, and his great-grandmother, Thuya. The profiles for Tutankhamun and Amenhotep III were incomplete and the analysis produced differing probability figures despite having concordant allele results. Because the relationships of these two mummies with the KV55 mummy had previously been confirmed in an earlier study, the haplogroup prediction of both mummies could be derived from the full profile of the KV55 data [116] [117] Tut also changed his name to Tutankhamun, which meant the “living image of Amun,” the Egyptian god of the air. He also took on the throne name, Nebkheperure, which was a nod to the old sun god Re. He married a woman named Ankhesenamun, a daughter of Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. While the couple are not thought to have left any surviving children, two mummified fetuses found in Tut’s tomb were likely their stillborn daughters. Tut’s legacy The Story of Tutankhamun" written by egyptologist Garry J. Shaw is an accessible and up-to-date biography of the boy king Tutankhamun. Spanning from his birth to the display of his burial goods in the twenty-first century, Shaw covers the entire life and afterlife of Tutankhamun using the most recent scholarship. With colour images and the retelling of Tutankhamun's life in a narrative style, this book is an accessible and well-written book for scholars and egyptology lovers alike. Classroom TUTorials: The Many Names of King Tutankhamun" (PDF). Michael C. Carlos Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2013 . Retrieved 10 July 2013.

Chyla, Julia; Rosińska-Balik, Karolina; Debowska-Ludwin, Joanna (2017). Current Research in Egyptology 17. Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1-78570-603-5. OCLC 1029884966. Osing, Jürgen; Dreyer, Günter (1987). Form und Mass: Beiträge zur Literatur, Sprache und Kunst des alten Ägypten: Festschrift für Gerhard Fecht zum 65. Geburtstag am 6. Februar 1987. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-02704-5. Within tomb KV21, the mummy KV21A was identified as having been the biological mother of Tutankhamun's two daughters — it is therefore speculated that this mummy is of his only known wife, Ankhesenamun, who was his paternal half-sister. Their two daughters were identified as the 317a and 317b mummies; daughter 317a was born prematurely at 5–6 months of pregnancy while daughter 317b was born at full-term, though both died in infancy. [40] The relief depicts a child in the arms of a nurse outside a chamber in which Meketaten is being mourned by her parents and siblings, which has been interpreted to indicate she died in childbirth. [27] After he died, Tutankhamun was mummified according to Egyptian religious tradition, which held that royal bodies should be preserved and provisioned for the afterlife. Embalmers removed his organs and wrapped him in resin-soaked bandages, a 24-pound solid gold portrait mask was placed over his head and shoulders and he was laid in a series of nested containers—three golden coffins, a granite sarcophagus and four gilded wooden shrines, the largest of which barely fit into the tomb’s burial chamber.

The priceless artifacts discovered in King Tut's tomb went on a worldwide tour beginning in 2018 and scheduled to last until 2021. The extravagant tour includes hundreds of sacred ritual objects, precious jewelry, musical instruments and sculptures, many of which have never left Egypt. The book is a nice introduction to this most well known pharaoh, and is appropriate for YA readers as well as adults. During his reign, Tutankhamun accomplished little. However, his powerful advisers restored the traditional Egyptian religion, which had been set aside by his father, Akhenaten, who led the "Amarna Revolution." The exhibition included 80 exhibits from the reigns of Tutankhamun's immediate predecessors in the 18th Dynasty, such as Hatshepsut, whose trade policies greatly increased the wealth of that dynasty and enabled the lavish wealth of Tutankhamun's burial artifacts, as well as 50 from Tutankhamun's tomb. The exhibition did not include the gold mask that was a feature of the 1972–1979 tour, as the Egyptian government has decided that damage which occurred to previous artifacts on tours precludes this one from joining them. [176] Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, The Mummy of Tutankhamun: The CT Scan Report, as printed in Ancient Egypt, June/July 2005.

How heavy was the mask found in the tomb? Can you find something in your classroom that weighs the same? Thompson, Jason (2018). Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology, 3. From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-416-760-7. In other words, even if you think you know everything there is about King Tut, as he's usually called, you're likely to find something new. I know I did. I most liked the author's weaving of a non-fictional story in what I'll dub a fictional manner, bringing the story to life. It gives it the "you are there" feel. You can almost feel the heat, noise, smells, and intense activity about Tut. While the author does not attempt to project feelings of awe, fear, or wonder on the boy king, he uses existing evidence to make some educated assumptions about what his life must have been like both before and after he became king. Even after his death, you're left feeling pangs of sympathy for his young wife as she strives to hold things together, being ultimately forced to wed a much older man who had been a trusted advisor to Tut. In other words, this is both a historical and very human story. Tutankhamun acquired kingship during a tumultuous time period. Akhenaten's Atenism had engendered nationwide destabilization, and his successor, likely Tutankhamun's paternal older half-brother, Smenkhare, had an abruptly short reign. This was followed by another abruptly short reign of Neferneferuaten, likely Smenkhare's widow, Meritaten. It was under these tenuous circumstances that after Neferneferuaten's death, Tutankhamun inherited the throne and expounded the reversal of Atenism, which involved extensive reconstruction and the reconsecration of the traditional cults and clergymen, as evidenced most eminently by the artifact known as the Restoration Stela. [14] During this time, the traditional cult of the god Amun was reestablished, and the king subsequently retitled himself from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun. In accordance with this, his wife also retitled herself from Ankhesenpaaten to Ankhesenamun. [15] Gordon, Stuart (1995). The Book of Spells, Hexes, and Curses. New York: Carol Publishing Group. ISBN 978-08065-1675-2.Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2010). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-28857-3. a b c d e f g h "Digital Egypt for Universities: Tutankhamun". University College London. 22 June 2003 . Retrieved 5 August 2006. Gad, Yehia Z.; Selim, Ashraf; Pusch, Carsten M. (23 June 2010). "King Tutankhamun's Family and Demise—Reply". JAMA. 303 (24): 2471. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.823. King Tut was the son of the powerful Akhenaten (also known as Amenhotep IV). His mother was probably one of Akhenaten's sisters. Blakely, R. (2023, June 9). King Tut ‘was more teen dynamo than frail pharaoh.’ The Sunday Times. Retrieved June 11, 2023, from https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c6d309ca-06ff-11ee-b1f9-dbcd37af20fb?shareToken=8d145fd9fd75ece4f9a48004aaf71812

This was the short-lived Amarna period instituted by his predecessor Akhenaten, who upended the previously stable structure of Egyptian life, particularly in religion, replacing the multitudinous deities of Egypt with the Aten, embodied in the disk of the sun, in one of the first recorded instances of monotheism. Upon the deaths of Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, who may have reigned on her own for a short time, there was a push to restore life to the way it had been before and the old gods to their former glory, and the new king, only about ten years old at the time, was the one to undertake the task, which he seems to have done willingly enough. It will help pupils understand how we find out about the past and the role of sources in this exploration. Further information: Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun San Francisco's M. H. de Young Memorial Museum hosted an exhibition of Tutankhamun artifacts in 2009 [163]

Forbes, D. C. (2000). "Seven Battered Osiride Figures in the Cairo Museum and the Sphinx Avenue of Tutankhamen at Karnak". Amarna Letters. 4: 82–87. Around 1332 B.C.E., the same year that Tutankhaten took power, he married Ankhesenamun, his half-sister and the daughter of Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. While the young couple had no surviving children, it is known they had two daughters, both likely to have been stillborn.