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    Carter was hired in 1907 by Lord Carnarvon to lead excavations of Egyptian tombs. In 1922, Carter and his team discovered a step leading to a sealed door while excavating at a site where they believed King Tut's tomb was located. On November 26th, Carter and Carnarvon entered the tomb and found a vast collection of treasures, including on February 16th, 1923 when they found Tutankhamun's sarcophagus. King Tut ruled from approximately 1324-1325 BC and was the grandson of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, reversing the religious reforms of his father Akhenaten before his early death at age 19, which was possibly due to malaria or a leg infection combined with

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    Carter was hired in 1907 by Lord Carnarvon to lead excavations of Egyptian tombs. In 1922, Carter and his team discovered a step leading to a sealed door while excavating at a site where they believed King Tut's tomb was located. On November 26th, Carter and Carnarvon entered the tomb and found a vast collection of treasures, including on February 16th, 1923 when they found Tutankhamun's sarcophagus. King Tut ruled from approximately 1324-1325 BC and was the grandson of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, reversing the religious reforms of his father Akhenaten before his early death at age 19, which was possibly due to malaria or a leg infection combined with

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    Carter was hired in 1907 by Lord Carnarvon to lead excavations of Egyptian tombs. In 1922, Carter and his team discovered a step leading to a sealed door while excavating at a site where they believed King Tut's tomb was located. On November 26th, Carter and Carnarvon entered the tomb and found a vast collection of treasures, including on February 16th, 1923 when they found Tutankhamun's sarcophagus. King Tut ruled from approximately 1324-1325 BC and was the grandson of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, reversing the religious reforms of his father Akhenaten before his early death at age 19, which was possibly due to malaria or a leg infection combined with

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    In 1907, Carter was hired by wealthy English aristocrat Lord Carnarvon, who

    was fascinated by Egyptology. With Carnarvon's backing, Carter led the


    excavation of Egyptian nobles' tombs. In 1914, Carnarvon received a license
    to dig at a site where it was believed the tomb of King Tutankhamun rested.
    Carnarvon gave the job to Carter. Carter hired a crew of workers to help find
    the tomb but was interrupted by World War I.

    Discovery of King Tut's Tomb

    Following the war, Carter resumed his excavations, but after several years,
    Lord Carnarvon grew dissatisfied with the lack of results and informed Carter
    he had one more season of funding to find the tomb. On November 4, 1922, a
    boy who worked as a water fetcher on the excavation started to dig in the
    sand with a stick. He found a stone step and called Carter over. Carter's crew
    found a flight of steps that led down to a sealed door and a secret chamber.
    On November 26, 1922, Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb, where
    they found an immense collection of gold and treasures. On February 16,
    1923, Carter opened the innermost chamber and found the sarcophagus of
    King Tut.

    Who Was King Tut?

    King Tutankhamun (Tutankhamen or simply King Tut) ruled Egypt as


    pharaoh for 10 years until his death at age 19, around 1324 B.C.

    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.1550-1295 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.

    Tutankhamun reversed Akhenaten’s reforms early in his reign, reviving


    worship of the god Amun, restoring Thebes as a religious center and
    changing the end of his name to reflect royal allegiance to the creator
    god Amun. He also worked in concert with his powerful advisers
    Horemheb and Ay—both future pharaohs—to restore Egypt’s stature in
    the region.

    How Did King Tut Die?

    There are many theories as to what killed King Tut  at the age of 19. He
    was tall but physically frail, with a crippling bone disease in his clubbed
    left foot. He is the only pharaoh known to have been depicted seated
    while engaged in physical activities like archery. Traditional inbreeding
    in the Egyptian royal family also likely contributed to the boy king’s
    poor health and early death. DNA tests published in 2010 revealed that
    Tutankhamun’s parents were brother and sister, and that King Tut’s
    wife Ankhesenamun was also his half-sister. Their only two daughters
    were stillborn.

    Because Tutankhamun’s remains revealed a hole in the back of the


    skull, some historians had concluded that the young king was
    assassinated, but recent tests suggest that the hole was made during
    mummification. CT scans in 1995 showed that the king had an infected
    broken left leg, while DNA from his mummy revealed evidence of
    multiple malaria infections, all of which may have contributed to his
    early death.

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