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Tutankhamen
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Tutankhamen (died
c.1352 bc), Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, reigned
c.1361–
c.1352 bc. He abandoned the worship of the sun god instituted by
Akhenaten, reinstating the worship of Amun and making Thebes the capital city once again.
His tomb, containing a wealth of rich and varied contents, was discovered virtually intact by the English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. Lord Carnarvon, who had sponsored the excavation, died the following year of blood-poisoning following a mosquito bite in the Valley of the Kings; this gave rise to the belief that to open the tomb had been unlucky.
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TUTANKHAMEN
Newspaper article from: Boise Weekly; 12/19/2007; ; 573 words
; ...ancient Egypt is better known than Tutankhamen, the boy pharaoh. Ever since Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, the subsequent...Taking advantage of this interest is Tutankhamen, a set-collection game by Reiner...
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Museum displays new likeness of King Tutankhamen
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 9/30/2002; 453 words
; ...purportedly shows the true face of King Tutankhamen went on display Monday at London's...000 years ago. The fiberglass cast of Tutankhamen's head, based on computer models...pharaoh's tomb. The opulent tomb of Tutankhamen, who died around 1350 B.C., was...
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Connolly tells Manchester conference: Tutankhamen fathered twins.(Conference news)
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 10/1/2008; 700+ words
; Two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamen may have been twins and were very likely...to analyse the mummified remains of Tutankhamen and the two stillborn children, will...that the two foetuses in the tomb of Tutankhamen could be twins despite their very different...
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Historical Notes: Immortality restored to Tutankhamen
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/4/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Ironically, this had been the fate of Tutankhamen himself: his name had been chiselled...years, he had endured oblivion. But Tutankhamen's disgrace existed in the shadow of...hysteria surrounding the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb some 13 years later is evident...
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Unearthing Tutankhamen's tomb; RETROSPECTIVE WALES - ARCHAEOLOGY: Since its discovery in 1922 the myths of the famous mummy are still potent.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/30/2001; 700+ words
; ...It contained the body of the boy king Tutankhamen, who had reigned in the 14th Century...the name of the king was revealed as Tutankhamen. Then, on Saturday November 25 the...tomb. Writing in his book The Tomb of Tutankhamen Carter recalled those first moments...
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Egypt holds special exhibition of Tutankhamen treasures
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 6/10/2007; 379 words
; Egypt holds special exhibition of Tutankhamen treasures CAIRO, June 10 (Xinhua...special exhibition of Pharaoh of Egypt Tutankhamen's treasures opened here Sunday evening...Cairo. The exhibition, which displays Tutankhamen's amulets and other original burial...
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Mobile Computed Tomography Images Suggest King Tutankhamen Died from an Infected Leg Wound
Newspaper article from: Wireless News; 3/12/2005; 531 words
; ...Computed Tomography Images Suggest King Tutankhamen Died from an Infected Leg Wound WIRELESS...Computed Tomography Images Suggest King Tutankhamen Died from an Infected Leg Wound (C...Egypt have examined the cause of King Tutankhamen's death some 3,000 years ago. The...
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Author Says Jesus Was Really Tutankhamen
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/30/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...Testament did not exist, but was based on Tutankhamen. Ahmed Osman, author of "The House...was Akhenaten, the Pharaoh who was Tutankhamen's father. "Akhenaten imposed on...god in place of their many deities. Tutankhamen allowed the old deities back, but he...
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Hot on the trail of Tutankhamen's killer
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/29/1998; ; 700+ words
; THE MURDER OF TUTANKHAMEN A True Story By Bob Brier Putnam...the mummy case yet. Who murdered Tutankhamen, king of Upper and Lower Egypt...for Boris Karloff. "The Murder of Tutankhamen" observes the conventions of a whodunit...
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Cultural Bounty in Basel: from ancient antiquities associated with the mysterious boy pharaoh Tutankhamen to mutually enriching friendships between 20th-century artists, no other European city can equal Basel this summer in terms of the quality and diversity of exhibitions on view.(Art & Culture)
Magazine article from: Swiss News; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...seen in Europe for over 20 years, "Tutankhamen: The Golden Beyond" at Basel's Antiken...the loan of relics from the tomb of Tutankhamen to other countries. The Egyptian...last European exhibition dedicated to Tutankhamen took place in Berlin in 1980, but it...
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Tutankhamen
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Tutankhamen Born: c. 1370 b.c.e.Died: c...c.e. Egyptian king and pharaoh Tutankhamen was the twelfth king of the eighteenth...his reign was relatively unimportant, Tutankhamen became the most famous of the pharaohs...
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Tutankhamen Curse
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Tutankhamen Curse On November 26, 1922, in the Valley of the Kings, the tomb of Tutankhamen, the boy king of Egypt, was discovered...various other individuals associated with the Tutankhamen tomb, started the story of a "Curse of...
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Jewelry
Book article from: Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
...upper classes and from kings, or pharaohs, such as King Tutankhamen, who ruled briefly in the fourteenth century b.c.e...pharaohs were robbed over the centuries, the tomb of King Tutankhamen, or King Tut, revealed the fascination with gold. King...
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Nefertiti
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...have been a niece of Ay, who ascended to the throne after Tutankhamen. Her role, if any, late in Akhenaten's rule remains...favoring the continued worship of Aten while Akhenaten and Tutankhamen supported a return to the worship of Amen-Re. Most scholars...
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Sandals
Book article from: Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
...discovered in the tombs of some of the pharaohs. The tomb of King Tutankhamen, who ruled briefly in the fourteenth century b.c.e...enemies. The images were meant to convey that when King Tutankhamen walked on these sandals he crushed his enemies underfoot...
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