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)
Extra pictures