The exhibition 'Tutankhamun's Funeral' will feature jars, lids, bowls, floral collars, linen sheets, and bandages that were used at King Tut's mummification and the rites associated with his burial and related objects. These include a sculpted head of the youthful Tutankhamun and several facsimile paintings depicting funerary rituals. Archival photographs from the early 20th century by Harry Burton, the Museum's expedition photographer, will provide an evocative background.
In 1908, more than a decade before the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, American retired lawyer and archaeologist Theodore Davis made a remarkable discovery. While excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, he unearthed about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron, bags of sawdust, floral collars, and pieces of linen with markings from years 6 and 8 during the reign of a then little-known pharaoh named Tutankhamun. The significance of the find was not immediately understood, and the objects entered the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a mystery. It was only several years later, after further excavations and study, that the Museum’s Herbert E. Winlock was able to identify them: the small cache contained the remains from the embalming and funeral of King Tut. These objects now get their own exhibition - Tutankhamun's Funeral - which runs at New York's Met until November 6th.
The greatest discovery of all times was King Tut's tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings. In this 3D online virtual area, you can experience that yourself. Dig up artefacts and gather points and marvel at - as well as decode - the wall paintings in the tomb to get a glimpse at the afterlife that was so important to the Ancient Egyptians.
5,398 artefacts were found inside King Tut's tomb - so many that it took Carter over 10 years to research and catalogue them all. But where can you see them now? Well, the vast majority are kept by the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, with the best and most famous pieces on permanent display there. A smaller collection is kept by the Luxor Museum, while more still can be found criss-crossing the globe as part of touring exhibitions.
To help you sniff out as many Tut artefacts as possible, we’ve put together this handy guide to finding King Tut around the world – be it sites of relevance, key artefacts on display, or even quality replicas.
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“Carter was actually outraged by the original exhibition of these pieces, claiming breach of copyright, and demanded they be destroyed.”
In 1903, Howard Carter discovered the ancient tomb known as KV60. The tomb is located in the southeast branch off the valley in the eastern cliffs of the Valley of the Kings. It is a small, uninscribed and undecorated tomb, consisting of an entryway stairway, a corridor with recesses and a side chamber, and a roughly cut burial chamber.
Two female mummies where found here, thought to be Queen Hatshepsut (relocated here by Thutmoses III) and her wetnurse. One of the females was found with her left arm bent at the elbow across the chest and with the left hand clenched, while the right arm held straight at its side. This burial position may indicate that she was a queen, or at least a member of the royal family during the 18th dynasty.
When the lid of King Tut's third coffin was raised it was immediately clear that the royal mummy, although intact, was in very poor condition. This was due to humidity and the protective 'libation' in which the mummy had been covered, with the result that the outer wrappings were blackened and parts of the accessories had disintegrated.
Cleft palate, equinovarus foot deformity (a mild case of clubfoot, left), Kohler disease II and bone necrosis, mild kyphoscoliosis (abnormal curvature of the spine), hypophalangism (absence of one or more phalanges of a digit, his toe), flatfoot (right foot), a fractured leg (not healed at time of death) and malaria tropica.
The opening in his skull was sustained during the mummification process. Tutankhamun's already weakened constitution in combination with malaria is now assumed to be the cause of death.
Submitted by Sean Williams on Fri, 02/05/2010 - 07:35
When you think of King Tut, do you see a young boy, struggling with the enormity of his power; a slender adolescent in control of the world's greatest empire?
The Tutankhamun Exhibition is a small museum in the town of Dorchester in Dorset, England, dedicated to the famous Egyptian pharaoh King Tut. It's housed in an old converted Roman Catholic church, and features a single permanent exhibition comprising various replicas of items from the tomb of Tutankhamun, laid-out in a scale recreation of the tomb itself.
The brainchild of Dr Michael Ridley, the museum was founded in the wake of the massive success of the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum in London in 1972. It reveals the history of King Tut through the eyes of British Egyptologist Howard Carter, as he explored the tomb in 1922.
While none of the exhibits in the museum are originals, some original techniques and materials - even gold - have been employed in the creation of facsimilies of such famous objects as the Golden Death Mask, the Canopic Shrines and the Golden Throne. A life-sized replica of King Tut is also displayed. It's said to have taken two years to create, using X-rays of the real mummy, and to be the only anamatonically exact recreation of Tutankhamun anywhere in the world.
In 1908, more than a decade before the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, American retired lawyer and archaeologist Theodore Davis made a remarkable discovery. While excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, he unearthed about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron, bags of sawdust, floral collars, and pieces of linen with markings from years 6 and 8 during the reign of a then little-known pharaoh named Tutankhamun. The significance of the find was not immediately understood, and the objects entered the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a mystery. It was only several years later, after further excavations and study, that the Museum’s Herbert E. Winlock was able to identify them: the small cache contained the remains from the embalming and funeral of King Tut. These objects now get their own exhibition - Tutankhamun's Funeral - which runs at New York's Met until November 6th.
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