These tombs had inconspicuous doors, but were both spacious and well decorated inside. Cemeteries carried their own potent magic, and dead kings were thought to have powerful spirits that might benefit others.
Burial amongst his ancestors would have helped Tutankhamun to achieve his own afterlife. It therefore seems likely that Tutankhamun would have wished to be buried in a splendid tomb in either the main valley or in an offshoot, the Western Valley, where his grandfather, Amenhotep III, was buried.
But, whatever he may have intended, we know that Tutankhamun was actually buried in a cramped tomb cut into the floor of the main valley. It may be that Tutankhamun simply died too young to complete his ambitious plans. His own tomb was unfinished, and so he had to be buried in a substitute, non-royal tomb. However, this seems unlikely, as other kings managed to build suitable tombs in just two or three years. Currently Egyptologists are investigating the possibility that there may be secret chambers hidden behind the plastered wall of his burial chamber.
During the funeral ritual the combined coffins were placed in a rectangular stone sarcophagus. Unfortunately, the outer coffin proved to be slightly too big, and its toes peeked over the edge of the sarcophagus, preventing the lid from closing. More than 3, years later Howard Carter would find the fragments lying in the base of the sarcophagus.
But the middle coffin had a slightly different style and its face did not look like the faces on other two coffins. We do not know what happened to Neferneferuaten, nor how Tutankhamun came to be buried in his or her coffin. These feathers crumbled away long ago, but their story is preserved in writing on the fan handle. This tells us that that the feathers were taken from ostriches captured by the king himself while hunting in the desert to the east of Heliopolis near modern-day Cairo.
The embossed scene on the palm shows, on one face, Tutankhamun setting off in his chariot to hunt ostrich, and on the reverse, the king returning in triumph with his prey. Ostriches were important birds in ancient Egypt, and their feathers and eggs were prized as luxury items. Hunting ostriches was a royal sport that allowed the king to demonstrate his control over nature. It was a substitute for battle and, as such, was a dangerous occupation.
How did it get to Rochester? Maya's tomb was excavated in by an archaeologist named Richard Lepsius. Lepsius was supposed to record and bring back Egyptian art, and he did remove some limestone reliefs from the tomb and send them back to the Berlin Museum.
In those days it was not difficult to get permission from the Egyptian authorities to dismantle parts of tombs and temples and ship them out of the country. Today strict laws govern the export of ancient art from Egypt and other countries.
We don't know exactly when the Gallery's Maya relief was taken from the tomb, but it was probably in the second half of the 19th century. Lepsius made drawings of the sculptures that decorated the tomb. These drawings record what the decoration of the tomb looked like when the Memorial Art Gallery relief was in place.
Tutankhamun's tomb was unusually small. Some archaeologists believe that the tomb's small size was likely because his death was unexpected. There is evidence to show that some of the objects found in the tomb were reused. On some of the artifacts, the name of Queen Nefertiti had been carefully removed, and that of Tutankhamun inserted. The golden death mask worn on his mummy is also thought to have initially been meant for Nefertiti.
Some have argued that Tutankhamun's death prompted the walling of Nefertiti's tomb and the hurried construction of his own. Radar tests conducted in the tomb revealed possible open spaces behind some of the walls which could have belonged to Queen Nefertiti's tomb. Experts, however, caution that the findings could likely point to natural features as opposed to tombs. Olympic Games History. Southeast Asian Countries. Commonwealth Of Independent States.
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