The Unknown TutankhamunBloomsbury Publishing, 2015 M12 17 - 224 pages The reign of Tutankhamun was of major significance in the history of ancient Egypt. Following Howard Carter's discovery of the king's tomb in 1922, the story of the boy who became Pharaoh, died young and was buried in splendor at the height of Egyptian civilization captivated generations. But there exists a wide discrepancy between that saga and what scholarship has discovered in the last few decades about Tutankhamun's reign. A truer story is revealed, not by objects from his tomb, but by statuary, reliefs, paintings, and architecture from outside the Valley of the Kings. Marianne Eaton-Krauss, a leading authority on the boy king and the Amarna Period, guides readers through the recent findings of international research and the relevant documentation from a wide variety of sources, to create an accessible and comprehensive biography. Tracing Tutankhamun's life from birth to burial, she analyzes his parentage, his childhood as Prince Tutankhaten, his accession and change of name to Tutankhamun, his role in the restoration of the traditional cults and his own building projects, his death and burial, and the attitudes of his immediate successors to his reign. Illustrated with color and black-and-white images, the book includes extensive endnotes and selected bibliography, which will make it essential reading for students and scholars as well as anyone interested in Tutankhamun. |
Contents
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2 King Tutankhaten | 17 |
3 Tutankhamun and the Restoration | 33 |
4 Statues for Amun | 53 |
5 Tutankhamuns Building Projects | 69 |
6 Tutankhamuns Funerary Temple his Tomb and the Sarcophagus Found in It | 87 |
7 Tutankhamuns Death and Burial | 103 |
Epilogue | 119 |
Map with Sites Mentioned in the Text | 123 |
Chronology | 125 |
Abbreviations | 127 |
Notes | 129 |
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Illustration Sources | 165 |
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Akhenaten Akhenaten and Nefertiti Akhenaten’s reign Amarna Period Amenhotep III Amenhotep III’s Amun Amun’s Amunet Ancient Egypt Ankhesenamun Aten Ay’s back pillar backrest British Museum Burial Chamber cachette Cairo canopic Carter cartouches carved Chapter coffin commissioned Crown cult decoration deities depicting Dijk Eaton-Krauss Egyptian Museum Egyptologists Eighteenth Dynasty evidence excavated fragment funerary equipment funerary temple god’s goddess gods gold throne Hawass head hieroglyphs Horemhab Horus name ibid identified inscribed inscription Karnak Temple Khonsu king king’s Kingdom London Luxor Temple Mansion Memphis monuments mummy naming Tutankhamun Nebkheperure Nefertiti nomen Nubia paintings pharaoh Plate post-Amarna Period prenomen Ptah Pylon queen Ramesses Ramesses II reliefs Restoration Stela reused royal Saqqara sarcophagus scene sculpture Seti shabtis shrine Smenkhkare statue stela sun disk Tell el-Amarna Theban Thebes throne name Thutmose Thutmose III tomb of Tutankhamun Tutankhamun Tutankhamun’s name Tutankhamun’s reign Tutankhamun’s tomb uraeus usurpation Valley wall