Tut's Hidden Rooms

Similarly to other Egyptian funerary rituals, the case of Paankhenamun was also buried inside of a “sarcophagus” case, a huge stone case for the coffin, and then inside of a decorated tomb, which most likely contained his most valuable personal belongings and religious symbols. The decorations often consisted of images

This wall was to keep anymore debris from collecting into the site that Childe would have to clear out. Now, once Childe got there in 1927, that is when the fun began. For the first building they had to work fast because no work was done to try to preserve the building that was left exposed to the elements. The first chamber was excavated they were amazed by what they found. The chamber was filled with over three-thousand beads, animal teeth, and bone needles. All of the artifacts are thought to of been a symbol of status because they would hand make jewelry. The second chamber also had animals bones, called astragali scattered around but, it was also found with shells. Astragali were thought to be used as dice and, being found with the shells, was used as a game. Chamber number four was fascinating because of the the tools found. An ax-like bone tool that was most likely used for skinning animals, a bone chisel, a tusk pendant, and an awl which is a tool for marking wood were all found there. 1928 is when excavation on chambers 6 and 7 begun. These two where were Childe found large deposits of midden or waste. In the midden was bones of multiple animals, including whale, sheep, and short horned bull. Also, they found excrements that proved useful in telling Childe about what they ate.

There were three outer layers of the shrine, the lid of the sarcophagus, three layers of the coffin, mask and wrappings, his actual sarcophagus, and lastly the three bottom layers of the shrine. When archaeologists found the tomb it wasn't as damaged as other tombs. Many believe that his tomb was robbed before but was still in good condition when found. King Tutankhamen's mummy could have been about 3,300 year old! Treasures in the Tomb

This is the tomb of King Tut. Khan Academy helps us visualize the inside of the tomb by stating, “While today we marvel at the glittering treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun.” The tombs of pharaohs were filled with valuables for the pharaoh to use in the afterlife, so I have drawn many valuable treasures in King Tut’s tomb. Another thing you might find in tombs are paintings. Encyclopedia Britannica states, “The decoration of tomb walls with reliefs or painted scenes provided some certainty of the perpetuation of life.” This means that the people of Egypt decorated the inside of the pharaohs tombs with paintings of that pharaoh in the afterlife believing what they painted will happen to the pharaoh. Due to this belief, I have drawn

Tomb 10A was discovered near the Nile River in a region known as Deir el-Bersha (The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC 2009). It is the 4,000 year old resting place of a governor and his wife, both of whom ruled during the 11th or 12th dynasty and are named Djehutynakht. After the tomb was excavated in 1915 by archaeologists from Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA), it was clear that what they had found was a consummate archetype of traditional Egyptian burial practices. One of the many grave goods found in the Djehutynakhts’ tomb was a fleet of 58 wooden model boats, which is the largest collection of model boats ever discovered in an Egyptian burial (Gansicke 2003: 185).

During construction of the house workers unearthed an ancient burial cave from the Second Temple period which still contained ornate oussuaries with bones and

Anubis is the Egyptian god of the dead, tombs, and embalming. He was depicted with a body of a man and the head of a jackal. The shrine of him inside of King Tut’s tomb showed him in his full jackal form. Many people believe the reason Anubis lazuli as a jackal is that jackals were often seen around tombs and graves hunting for rodents. This led people to believe that the sightings made the Egyptians believe that jackals protected the dead. This is why Anubis was made the god of embalming and of cemeteries and why a shrine of him was placed in King Tut’s tomb.

3,000 years ago one of the greatest murder mysteries of the ancient world was born. That mystery is the murder of King Tutankhamen, or was it natural causes? I will be telling you why his death was not of natural causes but of a murder.

Nefertiti Joann Fletcher’s constant research of Nefertiti and ancient Egypt led her to believe that an unidentified mummy is the long-forgotten queen Nefertiti. Many things found near or on the body pointed to their identification such as the fact that it was a woman who died sometime between the ages of twenty and thirty during the eighteenth dynasty, the impression of a tight band around her skull and the positioning and mutilation of her arms and body. Many busts that were made flaunting her beauty greatly resemble the mummy in the initial appearance and the exceptionally long neck. She was a powerful and prideful woman, and now she will hopefully once again be admired by people of the

The Book of the Earth continues on the left wall of the chamber. Here there is a mummified figure that emerges from a huge snake. It represents a water clock, a device that the Egyptians used to measure time. Next to this water clock are twelve small figures that represent the hours. There are scenes of funerary equipment on the lower parts of the chamber’s walls. The pillars in the chamber originally showed Tausert offering to various deities. But just like throughout the rest of the tomb, her figures were replaced by those of Setnakht offering to Horus, Osiris, Anubis, and other deities.

Besides the fact that Nefertiti’s name means “the beautiful one has come” her beauty is also shown in one of the most iconic Egyptian pieces, Nefertiti’s bust. The piece was found in 1912 in Amarna and was well preserved in both color and molding of the face. It is made of limestone and covered with modeled gypsum. The bust depicts a mature woman who was visibly beautiful wearing a crown which is also seen in many of her reliefs.

The tomb was found under a stairway of a temple and it seemed as if the temple was built with the main purpose of enclosing the tomb. Inside they found hieroglyphic panels that offer new clues about the legendary “Snake Dynasty” and a male corpse that must have been prominent during his time. Beside his remains are the bones of a jaguar and a deer, 13 obsidian blades, 36 ceramic vessels and six jade beads. In another

Introduction: A sculpture is defined as the art of making three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, which are specially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster. Sculptures, therefore make us to know the history of the life of the ancient people like their thought life, behavior and their ways of life generally. A Statue on the other hand, is defined as a figure usually of a person or animal that is made from stone or metal.

For example, in Weisberger’s article “Egyptian Mummy’s Symbolic Tattoos are 1st of their Kind”, she interviews Anne Austin, a bioarchaeologist who examined the 3,000 year old mummy’s tattoo and how it was common for the Egyptians to have amulets around their neck before a burial (Weisberger, 2016). Besides the mummy’s neck, other parts of her body were also covered with tattoo images such as her neck, back, and shoulders (Weisberger, 2016). This is an accurate portrayal of archaeology because in a scholarly article about mummification written by Myron Marx, he states that “images of the chest and upper abdomen show details of a metal amulet placed on the sternum” which indicates it was common for Egyptians to have amulets in their body parts before being buried (Marx, 1988, p.149). In another article, “Experts Doubt Claims of ‘Hidden Chambers’ in King Tut’s Tomb”, radar experts claim that King Tut’s tomb does not contain hidden chambers, while Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves and radar technologist Hirokatsu Watanabe indicates that there are two empty cavities “beyond the decorated North and West walls of the burial chamber” (Jarus, 2016). Watanabe performed a ground-penetrating radar, but professor Conyers of University of Denver says that the data from the GPR does not contain any anomalies (Jarus, 2016). Although there is an ongoing debate on

I explored and examined the Tutankhamun Exhibit website. The website gives you great information on The Young King but also the history of how he was found and how the exhibit began. The website mediately gives you the history of the exhibit as a whole, it seems that the current exhibit is the successor to the Treasures of Tutankhamun that was in London in 1972. Since they had the exhibit travel all over the world even with careful conditioning it was still damaged. Artifacts like the Gold Mask of Tutankhamun and numerous other major treasures were taken back to Eygpt by the Egyptian Government to be taken care of and to never leave again. The government had archeologist and artist work together in order to create a rendition of what the tomb