King Tut Research Paper

Tutankhamun or “King Tut” is probably the most well known Egyptian pharaoh. One of the reasons is that his burial tomb is one of the few that was discovered with everything still it. It was common for tomb raiders to steal all of the treasures that were buried with the pharaohs and so very little has ever been found. The tomb raiders didn’t locate King Tut’s tomb, and we can use the contents of the tomb to learn about the culture and people of ancient Egypt. King Tut lived around 1323 to 1343, and because he was only ten years old when he became a pharaoh, he was called the “Boy King”. King Tut’s father was the pharaoh Akhenaten. This pharaoh made a complete changes to the religion of Egypt, getting rid of their idea of many gods and changing their worship to one god: Aten the sun god. He became unpopular with the people of Egypt and the priest of the many …show more content…
This was the first tomb that had everything in it and was untouched. Ancient Egyptians believed that when a person died they would enter an “afterlife” where they would live the same way that they did when they were alive. In order to do that, they would need to take everything they needed with them. The burial tombs of pharaohs were piled with all of their possessions: beds, chariots, games, art work, walking sticks, weapons, and even food. Pharaohs had the most highly crafted items, many were made of gold, imported wood, inland gems, and ivory. When Howard Carter discovered King Tut’s tomb, he found a huge chamber with four rooms filled with everything King Tut would need in the afterlife. The most prized items was a “sarcophagus”, which is usually the burial box of the mummy. For King Tut, they had placed the mummy in one sarcophagus and then that was in two additional ones. The third or last one was made of gold, and that is the famous “gold” image that has become the symbol of King Tut that we know

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