DISCOVERING TUT
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT TUT
He was the last heir of a very powerful family that ruled Egypt for centuries. It also describes how CT scan of Tut’s mummy revealed interesting but startling facts about him.**
HOWARD CARTER
Some of them pondered over his untimely death while others feared ‘the Pharaoh’s curse falling upon those who disturbed him.
In 1968 an anatomy professor revealed that Tut’s breast bone and front ribs were missing
TOMB OF TUT WAS MADE UP OF GOLD
ABOUT HIM
BURIED WITH
:BOARD GAMES
:BRONZE RAZOR
:LINEN UNDER GARMENTS
:CASES OF FOOD AND WINE
Archaeology
3 NESTED COFFINS OF TUT
FOUNDED IN 1922
NEW PHARAOH
CT scan was undertaken to create a three dimensional virtual body. A scanner was taken in a trailer to the sandy area near Tut's tomb. Tut's body was carried there from his tomb in a box. The CT machine scanned the mummy head to toe, creating 1700 digital X-ray images in cross section.
PROBLEM
What does this lesson discovering Tut The Saga Continues teach us?
*Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues is a chapter which gives us an in-depth insight of Tutankhamun, the last ruler of the powerful Pharaoh Dynasty in Egypt. He was a teenager when he died and his death was a mystery. Some speculated that he was murdered.
Amenhotep IV promoted the ‘Aten’, the sun disk and moved his capital from Thebes to Akhenaten.
Carter found that the ritual resins had hardened. The result was that Tut’s body had
been cemented to the bottom of his solid gold coffin.
Proper force could not move the resins. Even the scorching sun failed to loosen the resins. So he got the resins chilselled away to raise the king’s remains.
Changed name to tutankhamun
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