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The tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings is, arguably, the most famous archaeological discovery ever made. Unearthed in 1922 by a team led by Howard Carter, the tomb was filled with fantastic treasures, including Tutankhamun’s death mask, which today is practically an icon.
Carter entered the tomb on Nov. 26, 1922: “As one’s eyes became accustomed to the glimmer of light, the interior of the chamber gradually loomed before one, with its strange and wonderful medley of extraordinary and beautiful objects heaped upon one another,” he wrote in his diary as he struggled to describe the wonders he saw that day.
The boy king, as Tutankhamun is sometimes called, died in his teens. Analysis of his remains suggests that he suffered from a variety of health problemsand used a cane to walk around. He spent much of his rule (ca. 1332 B.C – 1323 B.C.) trying to restore Egypt’s traditional polytheistic religion, something that had been interrupted when his father, the pharaoh Akhenaten, started a revolution that emphasized the primacy of the Aten, the sun-disc.
When Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered, it sparked a media frenzy and a rumor that opening the tomb had unleashed a curse.
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