What you don’t know about King Tut
Egypt has many sites bearing witness to the reign of the ancient Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun in addition to the famous funerary collection in the Egyptian Museum, writes Zahi Hawass
For 10 years after the discovery of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, the world watched in amazement as spectacular artefacts were removed from the tightly packed chambers of this long-hidden royal burial. Over the decades since then, millions of visitors have flocked to see these treasures at their permanent home in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
The 5,398 objects found by British Egyptologist Howard Carter inside Tutankhamun’s tomb tell us the story of the height of Egypt’s golden age, when Egypt’s foreign possessions were secure and its borders safe, when gold poured into its coffers, and when its kings married the daughters of their enemies instead of confronting them on the battlefield. It was at this moment that a rogue player stepped onto the stage. This was Akhenaten, a heretic king, seen by some as a saint and by others as a monster. His wife was the beautiful Nefertiti and Tutankhamun was his son.
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