King Tutankhamun's Funerary Mask: A Formal Analysis

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Cathrine Salby
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February, 5 2017
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King Tutankhamun’s Funerary Mask

In 1891, Lord Carnarvon, funded an expedition led by archeologist Howard Carter. Carter was convinced that there was an undiscovered sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun buried deep within a tomb somewhere in Egypt. This expedition went on for years, and after years without any successful find of King Tutankhamun, finally in 1922, Carter and his team came across some footsteps and a doorway near another Pharaoh’s tomb. The doorway had the name Tutankhamun written across it. The men entered the tomb and started exploring the four rooms of this tomb. In the last door Carter opened, he discovered the sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun. They had discovered that the tomb had been untouched for 3,000 years. Not only was there a sarcophagus however, there were about 700 items that still lay in it’s place, untouched, among them, a couple of enormous chariots. When they …show more content…

Although, he started his rule at an early age, his rule ended much too fast. Since the discovery of the Sarcophagus, they tried to find out why he had died so early and what might have killed him. They put the mummified body into a CT scan. They discovered that King Tut died at the age of 18. There are many different theories as to why he had passed away so early. One theory is that he fell off of a chariot, the other one states that he might have been attacked by a hippopotamus. They discovered a hole in the back of his skull which probably was the reason how he died, however, we do not know why the hole occurred there. Since King Tutankhamun started his rule at the age of nine, he listened and relied on a lot of his advisors. He tried to restore the change his father had made, and was successful. He had restored the polytheistic faith, and once again, people started worshipping different Gods and Goddesses, not only

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