The craze reached such a fever pitch that comedian Steve Martin mocked it in his 1978 song “King Tut. “Tutmania,” as it was known, once again swept the United States when a collection of objects from the pharaoh’s tomb toured the country from 1977 to 1979. Women donned snake bracelets and gold dresses inspired by his iconic funerary mask, mummies haunted the silver screen and showgirls at the Folies Bergère in Paris performed a Tut-themed review. Formerly a minor footnote in the tome of Egyptian history, Tutankhamen took the world by storm. Three millennia after his death, the once-obscure Tutankhamen became all the rage.įor several years following Carter’s discovery, no ruler was more popular than Egypt’s boy king. Experts believe King Tut left no living heirs, perhaps because he and Ankhesenamun could only conceive offspring with fatal congenital disorders. MINIATURES UNBOXING (MANUFACTURERS PROOF COPY) Secrets of the Lost Station is a cooperative story game of sci-fi, action-adventure, and exploration. Recent DNA tests suggest that one of the mummies is that of Tutankhamen’s stillborn daughter and that the other was likely his child as well. The chamber also held two miniature coffins that contained two fetuses. Tutankhamen himself would eventually marry his father’s daughter by his chief wife-his half-sister, Ankhesenamun.Īs Carter ventured further into Tutankhamen’s tomb, he discovered a treasury room brimming with priceless funerary objects, including gold figurines, ritual jewelry, small boats representing the journey to the netherworld and a shrine for the pharaoh’s embalmed organs. Experts think this trend contributed to higher incidences of congenital defects-such as King Tut’s cleft palate and club foot-among rulers.
Inbreeding was rampant among ancient Egyptian royals, who saw themselves as descendants of the gods and hoped to maintain pure bloodlines. The boy king, they believed, was the product of incest between the pharaoh Akhenaten and one of his sisters. In 2010 researchers performing DNA analyses on the remains of King Tut and his relatives made a shocking announcement. Tutankhamen was likely the product of incest. He abandoned his original name, Tutankhaten (“living image of Aten”), for Tutankhamen (“living image of Amun”). Tutankhamen is thought to have reversed these unpopular religious changes, restoring the god Amun to his former glory and moving the capital back to Thebes. Akhenaten also transferred the Egyptian capital from Thebes to a new site devoted to Aten. His father, Akhenaten, considered the god Aten to be the Egyptian pantheon’s most important deity and encouraged his worship above all others. Historians describe Tutankhamen’s reign as largely uneventful, but the young pharaoh did institute at least one major reform. Tutankhamen reversed the radicalism of his father, reinstating traditional religious beliefs. In July archaeologists said that a tomb that may have belonged to the wife of King Tutankhamun had been discovered in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.3. Archaeologists, for example, recently unearthed three tombs from an ancient “great cemetery” in Egypt’s Nile Valley. I ndependent game publisher Everything Epic flew the flag for an unabashedly ‘Ameritrash’ experience with their first game Secrets of the Lost Tomb, but this new game based on John Carpenter’s trashy Chinatown-meets-fantasy ‘classic’ Big Trouble in Little China kicks the quality to a whole new level. The temple is the latest ancient Egyptian discovery to thrill experts. The relief fragments are connected to the cult of the sun gods “Amun” and “Ra”, as well as the goddess Nekhbet.
The remains of the building were covered with sand and pieces of stone, which may be the parts of a polychrome relief that once adorned the structure’s wall.
The rear of the sanctuary was divided into three parallel chambers, according to archaeologists. YALE ARCHAEOLOGISTS MAKE AMAZING ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ‘BILLBOARD’ DISCOVERYĪt the end of the forecourt a staircase or a ramp leading to a sanctuary was also found. The remains of a large forecourt leading to a hall of pillars, parts of which were painted blue, were also found. Mud brick foundations for a ‘pylon’, or monumental gateway, have been discovered. In a Facebook post, the Ministry of Antiquities explained that the temple is 105 feet by 167 feet.
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