Video: The Golden Treasures of King Tut
This video, courtesy of the Library of Congress, features scholar Nevine H. Tolba as she discusses and highlights the relics of King Tut’s Tomb.
In 1922, an archaeological team led by Howard Carter uncovered a priceless rarity—the nearly intact tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh. Over the next eight years, with painstaking care, Carter and his team brought the final resting place of Tutankhamun to light. They had found a tomb made hastily for a young ruler, who lived from around 1334 to 1325 BCE during Egypt’s New Kingdom era. His father, Pharaoh Akhenaten, oversaw an immensely controversial reign famous for abandoning Egyptian polytheism for a more monotheistic faith.
Young Tutankhamun restored Egypt’s original faith after becoming pharaoh around the age of nine. His short life was marred by infirmity, illness, and tragedy, including scoliosis and a few bouts of malaria. He likely died as a consequence of his many health defects, childless, at the age of 19. But like any pharaoh, he was buried with lavish rites and grave goods. Some of these were pilfered by thieves long ago, but the remainder is now on display in the Egyptian Museum with occasional world tours.
This video, courtesy of the Library of Congress, features scholar Nevine H. Tolba as she discusses the relics contained in King Tut’s Tomb.
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