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Tutankhamun

Pharaoh of ancient Egypt (18th Dynasty)

"King Tut" redirects here. For other uses, see King Tut (disambiguation).

Tutankhamun^[a] or Tutankhamen^[b], (Ancient Egyptian: twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn; c. 1341 BC – c. 1323 BC), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Born Tutankhaten, he was likely a son of Akhenaten, thought to be the KV55 mummy. His mother was identified through DNA testing as The Younger Lady buried in KV35; she was a full sister of her husband.

Tutankhamun acceded to the throne around the age of nine following the short reigns of his predecessors Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten. He married his presumed half-sister Ankhesenpaaten, who was probably the mother of his two infant daughters. During his reign he restored the traditional polytheistic form of ancient Egyptian religion, undoing a previous shift to the religion known as Atenism. His endowments and restorations of cults were recorded on what is today known as the “Restoration Stela.” The

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Here at Nat Geo Kids, we know how much our readers love reading facts about Ancient Egypt. Check out the famous ‘Boy King’, in our five fab Tutankhamun facts..

Tutankhamun facts

1.King Tut was nicknamed the Boy King because he began his reign when he was only nine years old!

2. Tutankhamun died when he was only 18, and his body was mummified, which is how the ancient Egyptians preserved their dead.

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3. His golden coffin was buried in a tomb in the Valley Of The Kings (pictured below), surrounded by 5,000 priceless treasures.

4. These treasures included a golden throne, crown and cobra, pottery and big chests like the one pictured here…

5. Along with a golden burial mask, King Tut’s sandals were also found in the tomb. These had paintings of his enemies on the soles – so everywhere the king went, he trampled all over

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It was only since the 1922 discovery of his tomb that he has become the most famous Egyptian of all. Here are ten key facts about Tutankhamun, the ‘boy king’.

1. Tutankhamun wore orthopaedic sandals

Tutankhamun was buried with 130 walking sticks to help with his clubbed foot, which he often wore orthopaedic sandals for. These sandals had paintings of his enemies on the soles, so he could always trample on his foes. He had large front incisors and a huge overbite, a characteristic of his family.

2. Tutankhamun’s carpenters did a botched job

When Tutankhamun was buried, his mummified bodied was laid within a nest of three golden coffins, like a set of Russian dolls. When they tried to fit these inside the stone sarcophagus, the largest coffin proved to be too big. The toes peeked out and prevented the lid from closing.

The coffin’s toes were cut away by carpenters, who in their hurry, left the shavings at the floor of the sarcophagus. 3,000 years later, Howard Carter discovered the cut off pieces, the first person to realise they never bothered to tidy up.

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