At Amarna you can experience a slice of daily life in the 18th Dynasty period, Egypt during the reign of King Tut's father Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. Dress up like an - ancient - Egyptian, tease the hippos, or just relax on the shores of the Nile and enjoy the view.
Zoom in on King Tut's greatest treasures and explore the Valley of the Kings at the time when Carter made the world's greatest archaeological discovery ever: the Tomb of Tutankhamun. Experience life by the Nile in Ancient Egypt, gather clues to have a look at what the Egyptians envisioned the afterlife to be and dig up your own artefacts. All this is possible in King Tut Virtual.
‘The Stroll in the Garden’ (Spaziergang im Garten) most likely shows Tutankhamun with an injury of the left leg. According to a specialist in accident surgery who also practices sports medicine, the relief shows a man leaning on an auxiliary crutch whose left leg seems to be injured, as he is holding the crutch on his right side. Tutankhamun was the sole king to be represented with sticks in his hands, and a high number of sticks were among his grave goods (see Eveline Zahradnik's paper in PalArch).
The King Tut results are in and right now everyone is going gaga over the fact that malaria appears to have played a role in the boy king's death. While this is an interesting find, there is another discovery - King Tut looked fairly normal, or at least he did not have a significantly bizarre or feminine physique - which also carries major implications for Ancient Egyptian research.
Queen Tiye was known primarily as the wife of Amenhotep III and the mother of Akhenaten. She was also the mother of Sitamun, who also eventually married Amenhotep III, as well as at least 4 other children.
Amenhotep III thought highly of his wife, and Tiye was similarly devoted to her husband. Several statues and stelas depict the royal couple together, and in many of them Tiye is portrayed as being as tall as Amenhotep III. Her husband also devoted many shrines and temple, as well as an artificial lake, to her.
Tiye was considered a chief, albeit unofficial, advisor to both her husband and her son Akhenaten, who would later become emperor. Tiye died soon after Year 12 of her son's reign and is believed to have been buried in Akhenaten's royal tomb at Amarna.
Mummy KV35EL, also known as 'the Elder Lady' from KV35 is most likely to belong to Queen Tiye.
The Amarna Princess sculpture - named after Egypt's capital under the reign of Akhenaton - is despite having no head nor legs the most famous 'fake' in Britain. She was believed to be an Egyptian princess, whos relatives included King Tut. Considered a rare find, the Amarna Princess fetched £440,000 and was put on display at the Bolton Museum. In fact, it was a forgery created in Bolton, Lancashire by Shaun Greenhalgh.
Over a 17 year period Greenhalgh created fake art pieces that fooled museum experts and sold for sums as high as six figures. Sentenced in 2007 he is currently serving a four year prison sentence. His parents Olive and George Greenhalgh, who assisted in his activities, were given suspended sentences – they were both in their 80s when tried.
“There is no other site like it,” states the introductory paragraph on the website of the Amarna Project – the body which, since 2005, has been responsible for excavations and research at Tell el-Amarna, the short-lived capital city of the “heretic pharaoh” Akhenaten (who may well have been King Tut's dad) in the 14th century BC. As a living site, Tell el-Amarna is perhaps unparalleled in all of Egypt in terms of scale, ready accessibility and quality of preservation.
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"It does seem to me perverse that the Bust of Nefertiti is not in Egypt. But I doubt if its return is imminent."
These small ritual figures portray Tutankhamun riding a papyrus raft, hunting an invisible hippopotamus with a spear or harpoon. They came in a pair and were located along with 32 other ritual figures inside a black resined wooden box in the treasury section of Tut's tomb, KV62, in the Valley of the Kings. Like all of the statuettes found, they are believed to have had a ritual and religious significance. The ancient Egyptians expected them to aid the young pharaoh's passage to the afterlife.
The hippopatmus was considered by the ancient Egyptians to symbolise evil and disorder, because the evil deity Seth - according to Egyptian mythology - transformed himself into a hippo before he was defeated by the god Horus, in a battle in a swamp. Tut is therefore shown restoring order to the Egyptian universe like a golden god, by hunting down the hippo.
Carved from hard wood, and covered with gold leaf, he is shown in highly realistic detail taking a long stride forward, as he prepares to launch his spear. In his other hand is a coiled bronze rope, for capturing the defeated animal. The style of the statuettes reflects trends of the Amarna period - particularly the exaggeration of certain physical features. It has been speculated that they may have originally been created as an image of Tut's father, the "heretic pharaoh" Akhenaten, who founded Amarna.
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