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King Tutankhamun Tomb is from Eighteenth Dynasty (c.1336–1327 BC) is famous around the world because it is the only kingly tomb from the Valley of the Kings that was discovered comparatively intact.

The tomb discovered in 1922 by carter and his team made headlines around the worldwide, and constant to do so as the golden artifacts and other luxurious things that was discovered in this tomb were being got out.

Treasures of the tomb are one of Egypt iconic, and the tomb discovery is still believed one of the most important archaeological discoveries to date.

In spite of the riches it contained, the tomb of Tutankhamun, number 62 in the Valley of the Kings, is really quite simple compared to the other tombs on this place, in both extent and decoration.

This is probably due to Tutankhamun having come to the throne very young, and even then, his ruling still for only around nine years in total.

People can wonder at what riches the much greater tombs of the strongest kings of the New Kingdom, for example Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, and Ramesses II once included.

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Ancient Egypt was a culture of ancient Northeast Africa. It was fastened along the lower extended of the Nile River, located in the site that is now the country Egypt.

Ancient Egyptian civilization followed pre historic Egypt and united around 3100 BC (according to traditional Egyptian chronology) with the political union of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes (often specified with Narmer).

The many accomplishments of the ancient Egyptians contain the quarrying, surveying, and buildings techniques that supported the building of monumental pyramids, temples, and obelisks; a system of mathematics, a functional and efficient system of medicine, irrigation systems, and agricultural production techniques.

The first known planked boats, Egyptian pottery and glass technology, new shapes of literature, and the premature known peace convention, made with the Hittites.

Ancient Egypt has left a permanent heritage.

Its technique and architecture were closely copied, and its antiquities were taking off to far angle of the world.

Its monumental debris have inspired the imaginations of travelers and writers for millennium.

A newfound reverence for antiquities and excavations in the early modern time by Europeans and Egyptians has instruct to the scientific investigation of Egyptian civilization and a great respect of its cultural heritage.

A century later, the discovery of King Tutankhamun tomb, that included more than 5,000 Valuable artifacts, stay the greatest archeological discovery of all time.

“I don’t think there’s anything that can hold a candle to it in terms of outright richness, and in terms of the cultural and archeological information that it contains,” says Tom Mueller, a journalist who wrote a National Geographic article about Carter’s historic discovery and the opening of Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum, the new home for King Tutankhamun treasures.

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Much people would understand that the iconic objects from the collection, like King Tutankhamun solid gold coffin and funerary mask, but even the smallest items alabaster unguent bowls.

King Tutankhamun walking stick or his sandals are works of supreme artistry, says Mueller, who spent days with museum team as they fixed King Tutankhamun artifacts for presentation.

It’s no wonder that these treasures have branded themselves in the international awareness since 1922.

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Tutankhamun tomb was filled with special treasures including Tutankhamun’s golden death mask, golden throne and even golden sandals. But did all the regal tombs of ancient Egypt include such rich Treasures?

The answer must be no. However, the Great Pyramid of Cheops and other ancient Egyptian pyramids are unbelievable monuments, the burial contents inside were relatively simple construes to those buried in the tombs of later pharaohs, like Tutankhamun.

Golden sarcophagus.

Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus (a box-like stone container) caught not one but with three coffins in which to contact the body of the king.

The outer two coffins were crafted in wood and covered in gold along with many semiprecious stones, like lapis lazuli and turquoise.

However, the internal coffin was made of strong gold.

When Howard Carter first came on this coffin, it was not the shiny golden form we see in the Egyptian Museum today.

In his excavation notes, states, it was

“Covered with a thick black pitch-like layer which extended from the hands down to the ankles.

This was visibly an anointing liquid which had been poured over the coffin during the burial ceremony and in great size (some two buckets full”.