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Funerary Mask of king Tutankamen
Made up of golden leaf, Hand-Painted by Polyester.
Code : TUT1

Historical Information about King Tutankamen

Egyptian History

 New Kingdom

King Tutankhamen, fl. c.1350 B.C. of ancient Egypt, he belongs to the XVIII dynasty. He was the son-in-law of Akhenaton and succeeded to the throne after a brief reign by Akhenaton's successor. Under Akhenaton the god Amon had been replaced by Aton, and the reaction in favor of Aton ended under Tutankhamen; thus, the king who had been known as Tutankhaton, changed his name. He also abandoned Akhenaton's new capital, Akhetaton (Tel-el-Amarna), to return to Thebes, sacred to Amon; he restored the name of Amon, deleted from the monuments by Akhenaton. The chief officer of state, Horemheb, controlled affairs, successfully stemming the tide of dissolution that had threatened to engulf the kingdom under Akhenaton. The tomb of Tutankhamen was found in 1922 almost intact by Howard Carter and the earl of Carnarvon in the Valley of the Tombs near Luxor. Its great wealth of objects afforded a new store of knowledge on Egyptian sculpture and life of the XVIII dynasty. The contents of the tomb, including the mummy and the gold sarcophagus, are now in Cairo.

The secret behind the wide reputation of this young pharaoh is that his tomb in the valley of kings in Egypt was not stollen or even touched for about 3300 years till it was found by Howard Karter in 1922 with everything as the time it was closed, he found the sarcophagus the king statues, the royal jewels, the furniture, the golden mask and lots of other things.