Essays Tagged: "Tutankhamun"

Howard Carter is not a tomb robber.

tion of treasures..."Howard Carter's personal diaries of the first excavation season in the tomb of Tutankhamun. These are the words of the man who is describing to us one of the most magnificent disc ...

(2 pages) 38 0 3.3 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

A Famous Discoverer - The Story of Howard Carter

arter. Those who recognize the name, Howard Carter, usually associate it with the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb. As an excavator and discoverer of the famous tomb of King Tut, Howard Carter has ... r various clues to its existence had been found, Carter tore up the Valley of the Kings looking for Tutankhamun's burial place. Even though season after season produced little more than a few artifact ...

(5 pages) 47 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

Assess Tutankhamun's tomb for what it reveals about New Kingdom Egyptian Society.

The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 is considered the most important archaeological find of ... ursuits and food of New Kingdom Egypt.Being so intact when Carter made the discovery, the shrine of Tutankhamun gives us a strong indication of the burial practises of the New Kingdom Egyptians. The C ... es of the New Kingdom Egyptians. The Canopic Shrine situated on the east wall of the Treasury holds Tutankhamun's embalmed internal organs. A gold chest held four Canopic jars containing the dead phar ...

(5 pages) 61 0 2.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION

ged to find the tombs, pillaging and emptying them of their treasures.One tomb was spared, however: Tutankhamun's. Although his resting place was disturbed twice by robbers, the entrance was resealed ... to Cairo, and documenting and studying its contents, including the pharaoh's gold coffins and mask. Tutankhamun's mummy remains in his tomb, the only pharaoh to be left in the Valley of the Kings.Toda ...

(3 pages) 43 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

The Burial mask of Tutankhamun Joshua McCoy It is about the Burial Mask of Tutankhamun.

I chose the burial mask of Tutankhamun. This mask of Tutankhamun is an example of the highest artistic and technical achievemen ... of the burial mask means during the time that it was created. The art was created in Egypt for King Tutankhamun in 1325 B.C.E. as a burial mask for the death of Tutankhamun. I can not tell you any thi ... death of Tutankhamun. I can not tell you any thing about what was going in the world at the time of Tutankhamun death because I was not able to fined any thing that could tell me what was going to tel ...

(2 pages) 28 0 1.0 Jan/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs

reat rulers and after his death there were centuries of weakness and foreign domination.King Tut or Tutankhamun (reigned 1343-1325 BC), Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, the son-in-law of Akhenato ... es, the city sacred to Amon, was again made Egypt's capitol. Although he was not an important king, Tutankhamun is well known today because of his tomb, containing fabulous treasurers, was found virtu ...

(3 pages) 33 0 3.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

Tut

rworld by Hathar behind the king stand the god of embalming.In the ultimate scene on the north wall Tutankhamun wearing the nemes-headcloth and followed by his Ka or spiritual double, is weighed with ...

(3 pages) 6 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays

18th Dynasty Egypt

(6 pages) 54 0 4.9 Sep/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

The tomb of Tutankhamun and the daily life in ancient Egypt

In the tomb of Tutankhamun there are a lot of artefacts, everything from gold rings to pottery. But to understand h ... differences from what the normal population in Egypt would have in there possession. In the tomb of Tutankhamun you will find everything you could possibly need for the life after this. There are boxe ... f you were just a farmer you would have had enough to make it but not more than that.In the tomb of Tutankhamun Carter found a lot of pottery, large jars and pots, small vessels and bowls and amphorae ...

(8 pages) 12 0 3.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt

king tut

Marisa DuranKing tutWorld History HonorsPeriod 2My pharaoh that I chose was Tutankhamun also known as King Tut and probably one of the best known pharaohs of ancient Egypt. He ...

(4 pages) 3 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt