Tutankhamun to the deified king, indicative of the universality of his cult. Tutankhamun was buried in a tomb that was unusually small considering his status. His death may have occurred unexpectedly, before the completion of a grander royal tomb, so that his mummy was buried in a tomb intended for someone else. This would preserve the observance of the customary 70 days between death and burial. In 1915, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, employed English archaeologist Howard Carter to explore it.
Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is a novel written by Moyra Caldecott in 1989. It was first published in 1990 as "Daughter of Ra" in paperback by Arrow Books Limited (). Based on the lives of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun. Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra is part of Moyra Caldecott’s Egyptian sequence, which also includes "" and "". Chronologically, Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra takes place after the other two books. Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life – not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun.