The tomb had four chambers, each filled with a huge range of objects including gold jewellery, chariots, model boats, a tiny thrown and paintings. His parentage is debated, as they are not attested in surviving inscriptions. DNA testing has identified his father as the mummy within tomb KV55, thought to be the pharaoh Akhenaten. His mother was identified as a mummy from tomb KV35, which was also his aunt, informally referred to as " The Younger Lady" but is otherwise unknown. [22]

An X-ray atlas of the royal mummies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1980. pp.207–208. ISBN 0226317455. Reeves, Carl Nicholas (1990). The Complete Tutankhamun: The King, the Tomb, the Royal Treasure. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-27810-9. OCLC 1104938097. married his 11 year old half-sister, Ankhesenamu, and their eventual deaths marked the end of their royal line Design and make a shabti – Using illustrations from the animation, pupils are to design and then make a shabti using papier maché / clay. What style is used? What colours are used? What has it been designed to represent to the pupils? Once completed, pupils could present their shabti to their peers.From mummified body, personal items and paintings inside Tutankhamun's tomb we learn a lot about his life, but we also learn

Edward Chaney (2020). " 'Mummy First, Statue After': Wyndham Lewis, Diffusionism, Mosaic Distinctions and the Egyptian Origins of Art". In Dobson, Eleanor; Tonks, Nichola (eds.). Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination: Art, Literature and Culture. Bloomsbury Publishing. p.72. ISBN 9781786736703. Tutankhamun's popularity was such that a hit song ... was launched by Billy Jones and Ernie Hare under the title 'Old King Tut Was a (Wise Old Nut)'. Garry Shaw has done a remarkable job synthesising everything we know and do not know about Tutankhamun and created a compelling narrative-style breakdown of his life.

A MYSTERIOUS DEATH

Born during ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty—which stretched from 1550 B.C. to 1295 B.C.—Tut began his life under a different name: Tutankhaten. Within tomb KV21, the mummy KV21A was identified as having been the biological mother of Tutankhamun's two daughters — it is therefore speculated that this mummy is of his only known wife, Ankhesenamun, who was his paternal half-sister. Their two daughters were identified as the 317a and 317b mummies; daughter 317a was born prematurely at 5–6 months of pregnancy while daughter 317b was born at full-term, though both died in infancy. [40] Gad, Yehia (2020). "Maternal and paternal lineages in King Tutankhamun's family". Guardian of Ancient Egypt: Essays in Honor of Zahi Hawass. Czech Institute of Egyptology. pp.497–518. ISBN 978-80-7308-979-5. After he died, Tutankhamun was mummified according to Egyptian religious tradition, which held that royal bodies should be preserved and provisioned for the afterlife. Embalmers removed his organs and wrapped him in resin-soaked bandages, a 24-pound solid gold portrait mask was placed over his head and shoulders and he was laid in a series of nested containers—three golden coffins, a granite sarcophagus and four gilded wooden shrines, the largest of which barely fit into the tomb’s burial chamber.

Some Egyptologists, including Battiscombe Gunn, have claimed that the translation may be incorrect, instead being closer to "the-life-of-Aten-is-pleasing" or "one-perfect-of-life-is-Aten" (the latter translation by Gerhard Fecht). When Akhenaten died, Tutankhamen took his place. He was just nine years old. Aided by advisers, King Tut reversed many of his father’s decisions. Under his rule, Egypt returned to polytheism. This “boy king” ruled for less than a decade; he died at age nineteen.Tutankhamun became pharaoh around 1333 BC and ruled for about ten years. We know he was eighteen when King Tut's mask, an elaborate golden death mask, bears the likeness of Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife. It's made from more than 22 pounds of gold and gemstones, and is among the most famous works of art in history. King Tut Exhibit

Dodson, Aidan (2009). Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation. American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-1-61797-050-4. OCLC 1055144573. This illustrated non-fiction book was nominated for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway children’s book awards in 2018. Including colourful illustrations, maps, inventories and graphic novel storyboards, the book presents a highly engaging way for children to develop historical skills and weave historical knowledge into their writing. Links and themes Darnell, John Coleman; Manassa, Colleen (3 August 2007). Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest During Ancient Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-74358-3. The Story of Tutankhamun undertakes a monumental challenge of synthesising everything that we do and do not know about Tutankhamun and displaying that information in a digestible manner that readers of all knowledge levels could not only understand, but enjoy. Shaw’s book utilises the most recent scholarship and scientific data to construct a hypothetical narrative of the boy king’s life, which I absolutely adored. Shaw draws on archaeological evidence, images, texts and all sorts of available data and research to reconstruct Tutankhamun’s life beginning in Amarna under pharaoh Akhenaten. If you aren’t familiar with the reign of Akhenaten, Egypt under this particular pharaoh was radically different as Akhenaten raised the sun disk the ‘Aten’ as the supreme deity of the region. He closed the temples and moved the capital of Egypt to Akhenaten (known today as Tell-el-Amarna). So, Tutankhamun was probably born in Amarna and was definitely born into a unique and radical time in ancient Egypt’s history. Shaw introduces us to how Tutankhamun's early life may have looked, and then goes on to give a really intimate look into just how difficult it would have been for the young boy (because he really was only a boy when he acme pharaoh), to navigate his years as king of Egypt. This dagger from the tomb of King Tutankhamun was made from iron from a meteorite, gold, and crystal. (more)

King Tut’s death

Hawass, Zahi; Saleem, Sahar (2011). "Mummified Daughters of King Tutankhamun: Archeologic and CT Studies". American Journal of Roentgenology. 197 (5): W829–W836. doi: 10.2214/AJR.11.6837. ISSN 0361-803X. PMID 22021529.