what was inside king tut's tomb
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Tutankhamun King Tutankhamun's mummy still rests in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings. On 4 November 2007, 85 years to the day after Carter's discovery, the 19-year-old pharaoh went on display in his underground tomb at Luxor, when the linen-wrapped mummy was removed from its golden sarcophagus to a climate-controlled glass box.
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King Tut Coffin King Tut Sarcophagus. King Tut Shrines. King Tut Coffin - The Protective Sarcophagus and Shrines. The King Tut coffin was not just one coffin it was a series of three coffins which were encased in a large quartzite sarcophagus, which had in turn, been placed in a series of four shrines.
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Full Episode Ultimate Tut. Full Episode. More than 90 years ago, in 1922, in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter made the greatest archaeological find in history: the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb and its golden treasures worth nearly a billion dollar. Carter’s find made Tutankhamun the most famous pharaoh in ancient Egyptian history.
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King Tut Unwrapped King Tut Unwrapped. ×. 1 season, 1 episode. on Discovery. In this two-part special, world-renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass leads an unprecedented forensic investigation into the life and times of King Tut that reveals for the first time the identity of Tut's parents and grandparents, his cause of death and new details of his reign.
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KV62 Due to the state of the tomb, and to Carter's meticulous recording technique, the tomb took eight years to empty, the contents all being transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Tutankhamun's tomb had been entered at least twice, not long after he was buried and well before Carter's discovery. The outermost doors of the shrines enclosing the king's nested coffins were unsealed, though the inner two shrines (three and four) remained intact and sealed.
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- King Tut-Mini Biography (TV-PG; 2:19) King Tut was the 12th king of the 18th Egyptian dynasty, in power from 1361 B.C. to 1352 B.C. After his death at 18, he disappeared from history until his tomb was found in 1922.
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- Tutankhamun or “King Tut” is probably the most well-known Egyptian pharaoh. One of the reasons is that his burial tomb is one of the few that was discovered with everything still in it.
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Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut When Carter arrived in Egypt in 1891, he became convinced there was at least one undiscovered tomb–that of the little known Tutankhamen, or King Tut, who lived around 1400 B.C. and died when he was still a teenager. Backed by a rich Brit, Lord Carnarvon, Carter searched for five years without success.
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Inspection of King Tutâs Tomb Reveals Hints of Hidden Chambers An elevated view of King Tut’s tomb shows two walls that may contain concealed doors leading to other rooms. An elevated view of King Tut’s tomb shows two walls that may contain concealed doors leading to other rooms.
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Scans of King Tutâs Tomb Reveal New Evidence of Hidden Rooms First discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922, the tomb of King Tut yielded an astonishing array of grave goods—more than 5,000 artifacts, many of them in pristine condition.
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- The 1922 discovery of King Tut's tomb by a team of British archaeologists became a sensation that sparked a worldwide interest in ancient Egypt. Thursday's revelations raise the tantalizing possibility that the more than 4,500 artifacts uncovered nearly 100 years ago were only part of a larger royal funerary treasure.
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What killed King Tut? Thanks to the wealth of buried treasures that Howard Carter discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922, the name Tutankhamun has survived 3,300 years of history. But less is known about the king's lineage, and why he died so young.
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King Tutâs sarcophagus uncovered A+E Networks. Two years after British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discovered the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen near Luxor, Egypt, they uncover the greatest treasure of the tomb–a stone sarcophagus containing a solid gold coffin that holds the mummy of Tutankhamen.
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King Tut The Golden Age of the Pharaohs 1 See the Boy King's golden canopic coffinette and the crown found on his head when the tomb was discovered. 2  Learn about the extraordinary discovery of Tut’s tomb and the beliefs and funerary processes of ancient Egypt.
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- Dr. Joann Fletcher did believe she found Nefertiti's mummy in the tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings, but Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypts leading mummy hunter (he is always seen wit … h an Indiana Jones hat on), believes otherwise and thinks it is the mummy of a 15 year old boy.
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- Renowned Egyptologist, Howard Carter, discovered the tomb of King Tut in 1922, after 5 years of searching.
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Trailer Video Gallery. The best place to get in the mood for discovery. See our official video, learn about the excavation of King Tut’s tomb and catch a glimpse of some of our events. See more
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- King Tut, Tutankhamun, was a Pharaoh who ruled  Ancient Egypt during the New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty from 1333 BC -  1323 BC. He began ruling at the age of 9 due to the death …of his  father at the age of 5. His brother had already died, and he was  heir to the throne (next in line).
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Tutankhamun Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom or sometimes the New Empire Period. He has, since the discovery of his intact tomb, been referred to colloquially as King Tut. His original name, Tutankhaten, means Living Image of Aten, while Tutankhamun means Living Image of Amun. In hieroglyphs, the name Tutankhamun was typically written Amen-tut-ankh, because of a scribal custom that placed a divine name at the beginnin
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Secret Chamber Likely Behind King Tut's Tomb There is a 90% chance that behind King Tutankhamun's tomb is a hidden chamber which may be the last resting place of Queen Nefertiti. Radar scans have suggested an empty space behind the walls of the pharaoh's tomb and the evidence will now been analysed in Japan. The tests were carried out after British archaeologist Dr Nicholas Reeves suggested the Ancient Egyptian Queen's tomb might be hidden in an adjoining chamber in the Valley of the Kings.
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Tomb of Ancient Egyptian Princess Discovered in Unusual Spot Tomb of Ancient Egyptian Princess Discovered in Unusual Spot. Scientists have unearthed the tomb of an ancient Egyptian princess, Sheretnebty, and four surrounding tombs of high officials, all in a court in Abusir South, south of Cairo.
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What was the most important find in King Tut's tomb & why? The wall paintings did not give much new information either. The discovery of the tomb gave a good insight into the richness of a pharaoh's burial, but many of the objects found in the tomb were already known from other royal tombs or tomb paintings.
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The King Tut Tomb Robberies Jimmy Dunn writing as Mark Andrews. Many, if not most people think that the Tomb of King Tut (Tutankhamun) , was in tact when Howard Carter discovered it in the early 1900s. Indeed, even though King Tutankhamun might not have been a major pharaoh, his tomb was packed with marvelous treasures.
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The Curious Tale of King Seqenenre Tao All Maspero knows is that the body, identified by inscriptions as Seqenenre Tao, had remained in storage, cradled safely in its coffin, since 1881, when it had been found, along with many of the great New Kingdom pharaohs, in a roughly cut tunnel at Deir el-Bahri in Luxor.