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    Who Was King Tut?

    Tutankhamun, colloquially known as King Tut, was the 12th pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty, in power from approximately to B.C.E.

    During his reign, Tutankhamun accomplished little. However, his powerful advisers restored the traditional Egyptian religion, which had been set aside bygd his father, Akhenaten, who led the "Amarna Revolution."

    After his death at age 19, King Tut disappeared from history until the discovery of his tomb in Since then, studies of his tomb and remains have revealed much information about his life and times, making Tutankhamun one of the best known ancient Egyptian kings.

    King Tut's Full Name

    King Tut was born circa B.C.E. in ancient Egypt. He was given the name Tutankhaten, meaning "the living image of Aten."

    After taking power, the boy king changed his name to Tutankhamun, which means "the living image of Amun."

    King Tut's Father

    King Tut was the son of the powerful Akhenaten (a

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    Who Was King Tut?

    Genetic testing has verified that King Tut was the grandson of the great pharaoh Amenhotep III, and almost certainly the son of Akhenaten, a controversial figure in the history of the 18th dynasty of Egypt’s New Kingdom (c B.C.). Akhenaten upended a centuries-old religious system to favor worship of a single deity, the sun god Aten, and moved Egypt’s religious capital from Thebes to Amarna.

    After Akhenaten’s death, two intervening pharaohs briefly reigned before the nine-year-old prince, then called Tutankhaten, took the throne.

    Did you know? Carter’s patron, Lord Carnarvon, died four months after first entering the tomb, leading journalists to popularize a “Curse of the Pharaohs,” claiming that hieroglyphs on the tomb walls promised swift death to those who disturbed King Tut. More than a dozen deaths have been attributed to the curse, but studies have shown that those who entered the tomb on average lived just as long as their peers who didn’t enter.

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    Tutankhamun

    Pharaoh of ancient Egypt (18th Dynasty)

    "King Tut" redirects here. For other uses, see King Tut (disambiguation).

    Tutankhamun[a] or Tutankhamen[b], (Ancient Egyptian: twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn; c.&#; BC&#;– c.&#; BC), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled c.&#; – BC during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Born Tutankhaten, he was likely a son of Akhenaten, thought to be the KV55 mummy. His mother was identified through DNA testing as The Younger Lady buried in KV35; she was a full sister of her husband.

    Tutankhamun acceded to the throne around the age of nine following the short reigns of his predecessors Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten. He married his presumed half-sister Ankhesenpaaten, who was probably the mother of his two infant daughters. During his reign he restored the traditional polytheistic form of ancient Egyptian religion, undoing a previous shift to the religion known as Atenism. His endowments and restorations of cults