Tutankhamen and Mummification Laith 4C

Tutankhamen

Born 1346BC

Became pharaoh age 9

Reigned for 9-10 years

Married sister

Died 1327BC

Tutankhamen is now the most well known pharaoh

Tutankhamen’s Death

Many theory’s of death

bludgeoned: x-rays show fragments in skull chief Vizier

Illness: many herbs medicines found in tomb

Leg infection: break in leg from falling from chariot didn’t heal in time because wound infected

Tutankhamen’s burial

Valley of the kings on west bank of the Nile in Egypt

Last mummy found

Found 1922 by Howard Carter

mummification

Crack skull take brain out through nose

Put in liquid and let dry

Take out all organs except heart and put in canopic jars

Replace real organs with fake ones

Wash body with natron (salty liquid)

Dry with tree sap so flexible

Priest mummifyers Wash body oil, perfume so smells good

Wrap body 400 yards linen strips

Priest chants hymns add charms, tinckets good luck

The Mummy’s Curse Warned about curse: “death comes on wings to he who enters the tomb of a pharaoh”

As soon as Tutankhamen was found disaster struck

Lord Carnarvon bit on cheek from mosquito days later bite cut open from shaving got ill then died.

All lights went out in Cairo

Lord Carnarvon’s home England Susie, dog pricked up ears howled once then dropped dead

French scientist died after fall

X-ray specialist died unexpectedly

Wealthy American died of virus after visiting tomb

Connections To Today

Connections to mummification:

Put in coffin buried under ground or in wall

Burned to ashes

References

I used these sites and books:

www.woodlands-junior.kent

www.mummifying

Secrets of the mummies (book)

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